Jane Jerardi

Jane Jerardi

Jane Jerardi is a performer, choreographer, and artist. Her past projects have incorporated the work of multiple collaborators to explore that we which we often take for granted in modern life - our relationships to history, time, space and one another.  Read more... 

Proliferate

Proliferate -- a DVD-R label and site dedicated to dance for the screen -- has just been launched.  Forthcoming releases will include curated compilations of experimental video shorts by movement-based artists.  With a dedication to a DIY approach, the label aims to bring more visibility to experimental dance while also encouraging others to develop their own work for the screen.

Façade - DVD

We've released Façade, a DVD.  The seven tracks -- viewed separartely or together -- are an adaptation and second section to the first live version of Façade which took audiences on an alternate tour through the upper floors of the Washington, DC art space The Warehouse in autumn 2006.  It features a score by Rebecca Mills using material from the original performances with Tristana Fiscella.  The DVD was made possible through support from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.  Order a copy through this site's store (to the right).  Also available through Proliferate, Sockets CD-R label, the Shop at Civilian, Politics & Prose, and FilmBaby.

Chance

A video-dance installation, Chance, appeared at four locations last fall in and around DC. In early December, we screened it on the arcade at Glen Echo Park, which served as one of the sites in the video and in late January it was shown informally in Philadelphia as part of the Oxford Occasional Salon Series. The presentation of the video-dance itself caught audiences by chance, appearing on the side of a building on one evening and inside an empty storefont at another. In creating the video, which moves through colorful and vivid locations, we took as our starting point the investigation of coincidence and synchronicity in day-to-day life.

A preview of the Chance screenings appeared in the Weekend Section of the Post and Kriston Capps reiewed the piece in the Washington Post's Express, in which he described the work as capturing moments of "incidental grace and connectivity." Later, the screening at 1515 14th St Arts was also featured on ArtNet.

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