I'm Fine
‘I’m Fine’ is a highly collaborative work that began with creating set and props with multimedia artist, Kristen Coburn. The project has evolved into a solo stage work performed by Shannon Nash with original music by Jake Psenicka. We’ve created an abstracted and surreal living room inspired by my grandmother’s 1920’s home. This vibrant, domestic space is simultaneously comforting and alien to the performer. It belies its beauty with an unsettling undertone of dated gender norms, inspired by stories from our homemaking grandmothers. This piece explores the tension between feminism and domesticity; agency versus captivity.
October 28th, 2018
WAXworks at Triskelion Arts
WHO WE ARE
Quentin Burley Dance Group [QBDG] is a Brooklyn based dance company founded in 2013. QBDG has been presented throughout New York City, including Triskelion Arts, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, The Red Bean Studios, and Flux Factory. The company works in a highly collaborative process directed by Quentin Burley. The group’s work is multimedia; implementing video elements, props, live music, and set designs to accompany the choreography. Their work is consistently inspired by the surreal and mundane; creating performances and films that illuminate absurdity in our reality.
QUENTIN
BURLEY
Artistic Director of QBDG. Hailing
from Youngstown, Ohio, he attended
The Ohio State University, receiving a
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and a
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. His work explores formal structures of collage and thematic themes of identity, fantasy, surrealism, and absurdity. He has
had the pleasure of performing with Ellen Maynard, Dante
Brown | Warehouse Dance, Brendan
Drake Choreography, The Moving
Architects, and The Median Movement.
CHOREOGRAPHIC COLLABORATORS:
MADELINE IRMEN
ELLEN MAYNARD
BEKAH EDIE
MYSSI ROBINSON
CHERYL ROSARIO
EMMA RUMBERG
LYNDA SENISI
SHANNON NASH
MUSICAL COLLABORATORS:
KRISTEN COBURN
LYSANDER
JAKE PSENICKA
THE WORK
But Enough About Me (2017)
'But Enough About Me' unpacks the paradox of self-exploitation in performance. This collage of video, meticulous movement, and absurd lip-syncing, plunges into dark themes of objectification and toxic masculinity. Inspired by the sci-fi trope of the android to Miley Cyrus's 'Wrecking Ball' music video, the work creates an artificial world where sincerity is constantly questioned. This surreal work lays bare a history of exploitation in performance and identifies a path forward for millennial masculinity. This work was created through support of a Mertz-Gilmore Late Stage Production Stipend through Triskelion Arts.
previous works:
But Enough About Me (2017)
- a mutlimedia group work performed by Quentin Burley, Madeline Irmen, Ellen Maynard, Emma Rumberg, and Cheryl Rosario with set design by Kristen Coburn
- this work was graciously supported by a Mertz-Gilmore Late Stage Production Stipend through Triskelion Arts
Mermaiding on the Rug (2014)
- duet performed by Madeline Irmen and Ellen Maynard
Mermaiding on the Rug Ep. 2-4 (2014)
- trio performed by Quentin Burley, Madeline Irmen, and Ellen Maynard
Holly Springs Lake (2015)
- trio performed by Myssi Robinson, Emma Rumberg, and Lynda Senisi
How I Did It (2015)
- solo performed by Quentin Burley
QBDG: a Pseudo-Event (2016)
- evening length work performed by Bekah Edie, Madeline Irmen, Ellen Maynard, Myssi Robinson, Cheryl Rosario, Emma Rumberg, and Lynda Senisi
- with musical performance by Lysander
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I'm Fine
at WAXworks
October 28th at 7pm
Triskelion Arts Muriel Schulman Theater
106 Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY
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