Theater & Dance Dance Showcase: "Wolf" by Marion Spencer

WOLF is a dance and sound performance that explores beautiful magic and tragically real happenings in our world today. Digging into storms, happiness, the memory of trauma, whiteness, cleaning and transformations, this solo explores falling under spells, the wild beauty of nature as well as its undeniable uncontrollable impending loss, red wine, red blood, the new moon, and how we manage to get out from under it all. Nayyirah Waheed's collection salt; Sara Ahmed's The Promise of Happiness; Maggie Nelson's Bluets; and essays from The Racial Imaginary, edited by Claudia Rankine, all serve as research informing this project. WOLF prioritizes process, multimedia, world-conjuring, and the color red as it exists in our world and within the human body.

Marion Spencer is a Brooklyn-based dance artist. Her work has been presented by Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Gibney (Work Up 4.0), Movement Research at the Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, the Dance Now Festival and the Domestic Performance Agency. Her practice embraces pushing artistic, sociopolitical, personal and imaginative boundaries, while also siphoning nuanced human emotion. She currently dances for Kendra Portier and Kinesis Project Dance Theatre, and is collaborating with dance artist Simon Thomas-Train. Since moving to New York City, she has had the pleasure of working with Athena Kokoronis, Stephan Koplowitz, Annie Kloppenberg, Shandoah Goldman, Vanessa Justice, Shaun Irons & Lauren Petty, Michiyaya, Hollis Bartlett, Megan Bascom and The Space We Make, and apprenticed and performed with David Dorfman Dance. In addition to making and performing, Marion teaches dance at Gibney, Dancewave, Greenwich Country Day School and Girls Preparatory Charter Middle School. Visit www.marion-spencer.com.

This event is part of the theater and dance department's Fall Guest Artist Series. It is free and open to the Five College Community.