FEEL...FORM (or FEELingpleasuresatisfactioncelebrationholyFORM) by Luciana Achugar is a new dance quartet created for 3 dancers and Achugar with award-winning collaborators Michael Mahalchick (sound design), Carrie Wood (lighting design) and Walter Dundervill (costumes). FEEL...FORM is dance as celebration of experience, and of pleasure as the consummation of experience. It embraces carnality while resisting clichés of sexiness/objectification, moving beyond a superficial relationship to pleasure in overtly sexualized bodies prevalent in mass media and culture. Inspired by the 60's psychedelic experience and its quest for enlightened interconnectivity and transcendence through altered states of consciousness, FEEL...FORM's all-female cast engage in Achugar's signature durational phrasing multiplying the dancers' movements to create an organic, nature-like form reflecting both rigorous formalism and corporeal excess.

Luciana's Scratch Night showing is part of her visiting artist residency at the LAB.

This is the ultimate showdown - superhero vs vampire - infinity, perfection, chosen-ness...

Egged on by a long series of live and virtual conversations with one another, Jumatatu Poe and Jesse Zaritt will charge and tackle looming propositions about their material selves, their bodies — and the rest. In valiant efforts to discover meaning through metamorphosis, these two dancers will explore remaking themselves, within one moment, and then within the next. Hosted by the LAB in a weeklong creative residency, Jesse and Jumatatu are excited to share their week's findings with you.

Choreographed by: devynnemory/beastproductions
Performed by: Margot Bassett, devynn emory, Jaamil Kosoko, Meghan Milam
Hair design: Hayden Dunham
*this piece is currently in development as part of New York Live Arts studio residency program, and will be presented there on Feb 24 & 25
devynnemorybeastproductions.com

2011-2012 LAB Fellow Brian Osborne will present an excerpt of his research in the LAB. THE FLORIDIANS will be a modern day comic Guernica: it will imagine a world where golf carts, dark tans, cancer, Spanish, sugar barons, alligator wrestlers and tennis pros are all swept up into the spiritual bankruptcy ravaging a post-foreclosure America. In THE FLORIDIANS, Florida beomes a metaphor for the soul in crisis and the impending doom of the American dream.