Poster: Josh Levi
UNFORTUNATELY WE NEED TO CANCEL THIS EVENT DUE TO WEATHER.
SATURDAY MAY 20 // 7PM // ALL AGES // OUTDOORS // TICKETS
LUTHER BANGERT: Distillations
Distillations is a solo contemporary juggling show from the mind of Luther Bangert - a multimedia and multidimensional journey through the ground state of the juggling universe. How does the horizontal inform the vertical, and vice versa? Highlighting parts of the juggling process that are often only a means to an end - the suspense of a peaked throw, a resting object, a dropped object, and the moving human body above, below, and through it all, we are invited to explore the realms between inner and outer, and wonder at the transformations inherent there.
Luther Bangert was born and raised in the farmlands of the USA in a small town near the banks of the Mississippi river. Always taken with the unusual and enchanted, he developed a fascination with juggling at the age of 19. It ran deep, carrying him into the rich world of circus. Years of personal practice and development later, performing and traveling have led him to find other juggling, circus and movement communities around the world.
To Luther, juggling is both dance and martial art, a wondrous means of transferring spirit and sense to objects while exploring relationships with them both physically and philosophically. He performs both technically and fantastically, drawing on his movement experience, fusing the patterns of juggling with the organic movement of the body to flesh out fresh expression and depth.
Luther has performed with the Great Bombay Circus in India, has a degree in philosophy, holds a Guinness World Record for “Most Things Juggled Whilst Sword Swallowing”, and has performed in twenty countries across four continents in the last nine years. Most recently he has premiered his contemporary show ‘Distillations’ and is based in Philadelphia and the East Coast, performing and teaching juggling at the Circadium School of Contemporary Circus.
CLAIRE ALRICH
Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include: installation, dance production, wearable textile, performance, 2-D art, and sculpture. Based in DC since 2014, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery, performing as a company member with darlingdance, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator, was part of Hole in the Sky art collective from 2018 - 2022, and has received multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. www.clairealrich.com
KATIE MACYSHYN
Katie Macyshyn (she/they) is a performance artist and experiential art practitioner serving collaborative new media art. Her mixed media practice spans wearables, installation, sound, and video. They are also an art instructor and songstress who specializes in the therapeutic benefits of creative play in early childhood. Macyshyn holds a BFA from the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at George Washington University. She lives in Mount Rainier, MD and hails from Toms River, NJ.