Jade Manns + Glenn Potter-Takata
A shared evening
Thursday, December 12 | 7:30PM
Friday, December 13 | 7:30PM
Saturday, December 14 | 7:30PM
Due to unforeseen circumstances,
A shared evening of work by choreographers Glenn Potter-Takata and Jade Manns, who, like Ayano Elson and Wendell Gray II, have both recently shown work-in-development through Danspace’s DraftWork series.
Glenn Potter-Takata is a Japanese-American artist utilizing in butoh, improvisation, found materials, and consumer products to create performances around the body as a historical site in post-Internment America. “I’m really interested in the delineation between notions of emptiness and nothingness, emphasizing materiality or material quality, and the non-self,” the artist explains. A continuation of the in-process work he showed at DraftWork, Immaterial Supreme is a collaboration with dancer Kimiko Tanabe and musician Chris Ryan Williams that expounds on notions of the self, Buddhist concepts of emptiness, and the material. Using contact microphones and butoh, Potter-Takata juxtaposes synthetic materials with the natural or organic to create a sonic and visual landscape that pursues a dissolution of the permanent self.
A co-founder of the artist-run performance space PAGEANT, Jade Manns has performed in the work of choreographers and artists including Ayano Elson, Alexa West, and Jordan Demetrius Lloyd. Her new dance, Kingdom, is a dense panorama of rapidly shifting images and sounds. Together with collaborators Kalliope Piersol, Owen Prum, Noa Rui-Piin Weiss, Isa Spector, and Zo Williams (performance), Derek Baron (sound), and Kate Williams (costumes), Manns entangles tableaus of the artificial, the natural, and the divine.
*About Open Dress Rehearsal: Tuesday evening’s dress rehearsal will be free with RSVP and open to the public at limited-capacity. Open dress rehearsals are a mask-required, community-minded program prioritizing our immunocompromised and low-income audiences. Staff and audiences will be required to wear masks (N95 or KN95) and performing artists (if unmasked) will be required to test for COVID-19 (rapid tests provided by Danspace Project).
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Glenn Potter-Takata is a Bronx-based dance maker, media designer, and artist working in performance. Originally from Los Angeles, Glenn relocated to New York to study multimedia performance at Sarah Lawrence College, earning his MFA and where he is currently a teacher of sound and projection design for live performance. Glenn’s performance works have been seen at Mabou Mines, PAGEANT, Cannonball, Grace Exhibition Space, Movement Research at Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix, WestFest, and with Pioneers Go East. He is a recipient of the MAP Fund Award, Bronx Dance Fund Award, Bronx Cultural Visions Award, and has been awarded residencies through Movement Research, Rogers Art Loft, Gibney Dance Center, and CUNY Dance Initiative/Lehman College. His first solo gallery exhibition opened in January of 2023 at Rogers Studio Gallery in Las Vegas.
Jade Manns is a dancer, choreographer and co-founder of the artist-run performance space PAGEANT in New York. Her work has been shown at Draftwork at Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Sundays on Broadway at Weis Acres, New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival and PAGEANT among others. Jade has received support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, NYU Artist Development Program for Dance and Kino Saito Arts Center. She is a 2024/2025 NYLA Fresh Tracks Artist.