Jade Manns + Glenn Potter-Takata
A shared evening
Thursday, December 12 | 7:30PM
Friday, December 13 | 7:30PM
Saturday, December 14 | 7:30PM
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 performance artist utilizing butoh, score-based movement, improvisation, video, and appropriated media to create performances around the body as a historical site in post-Internment America. “I’m really interested in emptiness & 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 duet performed with Kimiko Tanabe that expounds on notions of the self, Buddhist concepts of emptiness, and the material. Using contact microphones and butoh, the 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. In this new work, a dense panorama of images and sounds rapidly shift and rearrange. “Through the carefully constructed sequencing and layering of visual and sonic material, the dance examines the role of the image in the movement of history, its interaction with worldview and its relationships with political force and spirituality. The work engages with an archive ranging from the first recorded human works of art in the animal-centric prehistoric Chauvet cave paintings, to modern day advertising, political propaganda and viral imagery.” The dance is driven by Spinoza’s 17th-century Ethics, which understands God as a material thing—the world and everything within it—a sharp break from prevailing conceptions of God as a paternal, governing figure. Manns engages the idea of a material divinity through the medium of the image, “whose simultaneous power and banality in our hyper-visual culture is ever-increasing.”
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Glenn Potter-Takata (he/him) is a Japanese-American artist, dance maker, and media designer based in the Bronx. He creates works of art around the body as a historical site, and investigates themes related to Buddhist concepts of reality and consumerism in post-industrial America. Originally from Los Angeles, Glenn relocated to NYC 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, Grace Exhibition Space, Movement Research at Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix, DraftWork at Danspace Project, Amanda + James Summer Happenings Series, and with Pioneers Go East. He is a recipient of the 2024 & 2022 Bronx Dance Fund Award, 2023 Bronx Cultural Visions Award, 2022 MAP Fund 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. She has received support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, NYU Artist Development Program for Dance and Kino Saito Arts Center.