AOMC’s “barrish” comes together at HERE (photo by Sarah A. O. Rosner)
HERE Arts Center
145 Sixth Ave. at Dominick St.
July 12-14, $18
212-647-0202
www.here.org
www.theaomc.org
Over the last two years, Brooklyn-based A.O. Movement Collective has been preparing its evening-length piece, barrish, in a very public way, raising funds on Kickstarter, staging segments in such locations as La MaMa, Exit Art, Dance New Amsterdam, and various homes and apartments, and working with numerous curators as part of its MENU project. The world premiere is now set for July 12-14 at Here, where all twenty-seven sections will be performed for the very first time. Featuring Lillie DeArmon, Leah Ives, Anna Adams Stark, and Emily Skillings along with twenty guest performers, barrish examines desire, power, and threat in unique ways, one of its signature moves involving two dancers’ shirts suddenly becoming stuck together as issues of gender and intimacy and public and private space take center stage. The work, which is influenced by Law and Order SVU and the writings of Virginie Despentes, Andrea Dworkin, Catherine A. MacKinnon, and Virginia Woolf and consists of such sections as “SVU,” “Gyroscopic Pillow Score,” “Get the Fuck Out,” and “Skinless,” is choreographed by Sarah A. O. Rosner and the dancers, with a score by Jonah Rosenberg and lighting by Edward Rice.