Additional past projects include:
IN SITE
A series of three performance art events curated in collaboration with Ginger Wagg, IN SITE bridged the gap between artists and audiences in DC in the spring of 2005. Improvised dance meshed with sound spilling from a car and an exquisite crocheted sculpture of white balloons in Spill at Transformer, a gallery in Logan Circle in February 2005. Audiences found intimate dances-for-one in a listening booth at Revolver Records, an independent CD shop, along with a performance typist, a film, and a live band that set the soundtrack for Listen in March 2005. The series closed with Crave, a high art/lo fi variety show at the Warehouse Next Door, the downtown DC club on April 30 and May 1, 2005.
Artists and collaborators included Agata Olek, dj milo, Ben Tankersley, Jonathan Matis, Lee Epstein, Aquarium, Angela Jerardi, Michael Wichita, Raha Majd, Lucas Zarwell, Tom King, Holly Bass, Jessica Hirst, Scott Burgess, Sharna Fabiano, Naoko Maeshiba, and Audrey Chen.
The IN SITE series was funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. It was also supported by Transformer, Revolver Records and the Warehouse.
Sheer
Performed to a spare jazz remix of Miles Davis by long time collaborator Lucas Zarwell, Sheer is a solo about the act of performance – the process of revealing and concealing oneself to the audience – and the intimate relationship that develops in the process. The result is a piece that is at once coy and seductive and at other moments, honest and raw. It is performed amidst an original set of billowing plastic sheeting and later, a floor of orange superballs, with a costume designed in collaboration with Beth Burkhardt.
Sheer was presented as a part of floor plan, which took the work of three other area choreographers and installed the work in an evening event of live art at the Gallery at the Warehouse in February 2004. This Choreographer as Curator project was supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and its Young Emerging Artist Program. It was later presented in a more formal theatrical black box setting at Dance Place as part of New Landscape in May 2004.
Mono: singular, one
Mono: singular, one, a solo dance developed by Jane Jerardi in collaboration with sound artist Lucas Zarwell and visual artist Michael Wichita, captures everyday travel in the urban landscape by melding pedestrian and abstract movement in an aural landscape sourced from the subway. A projected video of movement on an unending escalator route sets the stage for a contemplative journey through an everyday ritual.
“On the escalators we watch each other, getting closer, and then just when we could speak, or even touch…the moment passes. These are the strange intimacies in the city…our machines have brought us together and held us apart.” -- Tim Etchells, Certain Fragments
Watch a video of the Millennium Stage performance of Mono: singular, one, at the Kennedy Center. Scroll to the end of the performance, as the piece was last on a program with fellow DC-based artist Laura Schandelmeier.
Mono: singular, one was developed through the support of the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. It was first presented at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage in March 2002.
