Open Movement‘s WIP Feedback Front, a showcase of works in progress from artists, many of whom are part of the Open Movement community. Artists present their projects in a casual, supportive atmosphere to get feedback while the works are still being developed. Audience members are invited to share their responses anonymously, creating open exchange between creators and observers.

“The Con is a dance theater work for three performers that tests the edges and horizons of performance. Catalyzed by my improvisational sensibilities, this piece brings together scenes from a wide range of film and theater texts, my own writing, as well as choreography that references and unravels archetypal embodiment from different performance eras. “The Con” deepens a slippery agility I’ve cultivated in my practice, moving between a breadth of performance conventions to challenge ideas of authority, virtuosity, and moral compass. My guiding questions explore the myriad stylizations of “authenticity” and “goodness” expressed through theatrical embodiment. How are different gestures, characters, and speech exalted or exiled across dance, film, and theater – what scripts and scales of behavior do those conventions embed in our culture? With disloyalty to any one system of belief, “The Con” makes its own logic from a constant undermining and unraveling, favoring the unexpected over the virtuosic or good.” – Tess Dworman

Open Movement is curated and organized by Monica Mirabile.