an-humans, Over these great distances
An evening of live performance, original music, and short film compilation. Arranged, co-created, and performed by Annie Wang, Angela Schöpke Gonzalez, and david yates.
The evening will be:
1. live performance ~15-20 min
title: Banana and Me
Choreographer and performer: Angela Schöpke Gonzalez
2. original music set accompanied by short film compilation ~20min
title: azimuth
Music by david yates, films by an-humans
3. live performance ~15 min
title: Held Space
Choreographer: Annie Wang
Performers: Annie Wang and Angela Schöpke Gonzalez
About the artists:
Annie Wang is a freelancer based in New York. She is a company member of Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group and Same As Sister. Her choreography has been presented by Five Myles, BRIC, the Center for Performance Research, the Exponential Festival, Pioneers Go East, WestFest Dance, and Triskelion. Annie is a 2022-2024 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. She has also been Artist-In-Residence at Leimay Foundation, BRIC, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Marble House Project. She has been an awardee of the Brooklyn Arts Council grant and an invited Guest Teacher at Amherst and Smith colleges and at Emma Willard School.
Angela Schöpke Gonzalez is a choreographer, director, and dancer. She has developed works for the stage, public spaces, film, and for opera. Schöpke Gonzalez has worked nationally and internationally at venues including HERE Arts Center, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn’s Center for Performance Research, Dixon Place, Eden’s Expressway, Green Space, Blind Whino SW Arts Club, and others. She has written for performance publication CultureBot, and has been invited to teach at Peridance Capezio Center, Compañía de Danza Cheva Guatemala City, Melissa Network Athens, and various universities, high schools, and elementary schools.
Initially from Baltimore, Maryland, david yates is an itinerant choreographer, composer, and fire engineer who has contributed sound design to dance and theatre works during his time in the US, Northern Ireland, Hungary, the UAE, New Zealand, and presently Edinburgh, Scotland. The use of texture as a conceptual framework to describe and define spaces is a fixture of david's work, both as a choreographer (lobster anxiety, echoes/children) as well as sonically (AKL Babel, Lilly's Magical Garden). david produces music under the monikers pancakesandplutonium and trilobite tribulation (with Scottish collaborator Freya), with 2020's ausencias offering meditations on the negative space created by the enforced nonlocality of this period and 2021's waldsterben extending the spatial exploration to the forests local to Edinburgh.
Photo credit: david yates