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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: devynn emory, "baby"

devynn emory, best known for heavily structured, formal, spatially detailed dances, opens their 2013 residency with "baby". Working with classically trained vocalist Margot Bassett, a collaborator for the last three years, this text piece is a collision of this formal movement structure as it pushes off the body and through the mouth to create hyper composed sounds, revealing multiple understandings and truths.

Part obstacle course, part solo ritual, part group ritual, part collective action, 'baby" can only be performed once. Working from a written score of directives, performers are asked to memorize the score and present it this evening, unrehearsed, for its premiere. emory brings together a cast of performers drawn from the queer and transgender communities of New York, Pennsylvania, Los Angeles, and Massachusetts.

devynn emory is a dancer and choreographer based out of New York. emory is founder of the dance company devynnemory/beastproductions, and a member of Headlong Dance Theater and Tere O'Connor. Their recent work This Horse is not a Home, created in the studio series at NYLA, was shown recently at Abrons Art Center, The Poetry Project and Roulette.