Serious Rock

Serious Rock
Serious Rock
Serious Rock
Serious Rock

Serious Rock

Serious Rock offered an evening-length production of live music and dance celebrating the ridiculous and sublime moments of the performer’s life. Performed at the Clark Studio Theater at NYC’s Lincoln Center with music by the kloetzel&co. band, the evening premiered Sweet Betty and postpick, which both included live music composed and performed by Melanie Kloetzel. The evening also recapped the popular prepick and Shed, which had enjoyed presentation through Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, the 92nd Street Y, the Flea Theater, the Cunningham Studios, and Movement Research at the Judson Church. Dancers for the evening included kloetzel&co. members Julie Betts, Theresa Palazzo, Ayla Yavin, and Chalie Livingston. Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times called the evening “…a rare occurrence in dance.” Serious Rock was also presented at Swarthmore College through the “Window on the Work” series. With support from the 92nd Street Y and the Brooklyn Arts Council.

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It began with watching
It began with watching
It began with watching
It began with watching
It began with watching
It began with watching

MEN in charge

MEN in charge, a dance theatre work by kloetzel&co., explores the transformation of democracy as ‘alternative facts’ and outlandish acts populate the political landscape. A droplet of intelligence here, a hint of a shadowy figure, and we are all marionettes, putty in the puppet master’s hands.

Commissioned by CrossCurrents 2016, a showcase version of It began with watching premiered at Pumphouse Theatres in February 2016. After residencies at the University of Calgary and the DJD Dance Centre funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the work grew into an evening-length site-based work and a 35-minute theatre work. The theatre version premiered at the 2017 Fluid Movement Arts Festival. It then toured to the Brian Webb Dance Company series in Edmonton in September 2018 and to New Horizons Dance in Regina in May 2019. The work is currently being used as a basis for a documentary film, MEN, due for release in 2020.

It began with watching also exists as a site-adaptive work for boardrooms and government spaces.