CIRCUIT TRAINING by Laurie Berg
September 10, 5-7p
Artist in Residence at Glasshouse
Photo Credit: Ian Douglas, Pictured: Myssi Robinson (foreground), Madison Krekel, Laurie Berg, Jodi Bender, Ayano Elson, Marion Spencer, The Chocolate Factory Theater 2022
Join us September 10, 5-7pm to explore and activate ‘Circuit Training’, Laurie Berg’s newest dance installation, created during her residency at Glasshouse.
During her time at Glasshouse, Berg will set up a cyclical creative regimen based on the exercise methodology of circuit training. A combination of several distinct exercises performed with short rest periods between them. When one full circuit is completed, the cycle can start again. The repetition of exercises (in this case activities pertaining to the artist’s creative process: archiving, writing, moving, conjuring, and the daily tasks of caring for her toddler) can be used to atomize the jumble and create a spectroscopic analysis of past/present/future works along a continuous loop. On Saturday, September 10th Laurie Berg will present a performative version of this circuit training regimen for archiving/presenting/generating. The artist invites the audience to interact with ephemera/objects/props, allowing the spectator to physically play within and further inform the work (and its future).
Laurie Berg
Laurie Berg Bio:
Whether working with dance and performance, collage, or jewelry, Laurie Berg draws on her interest in iconography, detail, humor, and absurdity to cultivate a collaborative, creative space that allows for rigorous play. Working across, under, around and through different mediums, she creates performances that feel like living collages. Recent works include FOMO:DIPTYCH (The Chocolate Factory Theater 2022), superposition (Roulette Intermedium 2021), EZ Pass (Roulette Intermedium 2019), scape: Times Square (co-commission by Times Square Arts and Danspace Project 2018), Ziegfeld Goes Down (as part of Charles Atlas Presents: The Kitchen Follies 2018), Terrifying Times Call For Terrifying Jewelry (Dixon Place 2017), and The Mineralogy of Objects (Danspace Project 2015/2016). Berg was a 2020-2021 Movement Research Parent Artist Resident supported by The Sustainable Arts Foundation, was a 2016-17 LMCC Workspace Artist-In-Residence, the 2016 recipient of the Tom Murrin Performance Award, a 2013 New York Live Arts Studio Series Artist and a 2010 Movement Research Artist-In-Residence. Berg co-organized AUNTS, an underground platform for dance and performance 2009-2022. In the summer of 2021, the AUNTS organizing cohort produced AUNTS Goes Public! (three large scale outdoor events as part of the OPEN Culture NYC Program) and AUNTS Triple Threat (a three-way collaboration between the Chocolate Factory Theater and NYU Skirball Center).