Presented by CounterPULSE, de Young Museum, and Dancers’ Group:
Instrument, the new solo work by Monique Jenkinson (AKA Fauxnique) exploits the vibrancy of the body in the ever-dying moment of live performance. Created in an experimental collaboration with three choreographers – Miguel Gutierrez, Chris Black, and Amy Seiwert – Instrument enacts, exposes and undermines the roles of dancer as workhorse and choreographer as auteur. The artist’s slippery relationship to authority and authorship is a major theme, as is the dancing body as translator, container of knowledge and preserver of culture. In her unique voice, dancer/performance artist Fauxnique, calls upon ballet star Rudolph Nureyev, performance art heroes of the 60s and 70s, and current discussions about the body as archive to create a collage of iconic movement, historical anecdote, and personal narrative.
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Thursday, November 29 thru Sunday, December 9 at 8pm @ CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission, SF | $20