Bebe Miller curates DoublePlus show at Gibney
“As an artist-curator, I’m looking forward to seeing what my colleagues are seeing. My career ‘came of age’ during a time when presenters did the finger-pointing and steering. It goes without saying that artists have different agendas, perceptions, and choice-making strategies. Let’s see how that shows up.”
– Bebe Miller, Artistic Director of Bebe Miller Company
The DoublePlus series at Gibney Dance Center in NYC embraces the artist-as-curator format to present emerging and under-exposed artists chosen by mentor-choreographers. Bebe Miller chose Abby Zbikowski and Maree ReMalia to show their works Destabilizer and now is now respectively to Gibney audiences. Both OSU Dance MFA graduates, each is creating thought-provoking and innovative work in Illinois and Washington DC. Read more about the split-bill evening at Culturebot and Infinite Body. The shows took place at the Agnes Varis
Performing Arts Center December 17-20, 2014.
Taylor Knight and Anna Thompson | Photo by Alex Escalante
Maree ReMalia
Born in South Korea, Maree ReMalia is currently based in Washington, D.C. and creates work under the name merrygogo. As a teacher of the Gaga movement language, she uses movement as a means of self-discovery and building community. Her most recent work, now is now, explores how conflicting and contradictory thoughts, emotions, and circumstances can exist in a single moment.
Jenn Meckley and Fiona Lundie | Photo by Alex Escalante
Abby Zbikowski
Abby Zbikowski is a choreographer whose work is influenced by hip-hop and punk aesthetics. Her work Destabilizer grew out of a two-year process of dealing with the spatial composition of bodies in a purposefully blunt and rudimentary fashion. The choreographer and her two dancers use a rapidly shifting movement vocabulary, arranging seemingly random elements into a logical system.
