Part Performance and Part Social Event, Brooklyn Arts Exchange Presents SALON Now thru 5/13

The Brooklyn Arts Exchange presents Salón by Mariangela Lopez today May 11 through may 13 as part of the BAX's Artist-In Residency program. Salón investigates the personas inhabited in a social event; the struggle and the need to interact with strangers; the urge to see and to be seen; the ways in which people include or exclude themselves in a social experience. Salón explores the social need of dance, proposing an avenue where people can expose themselves to other, accessing an exchange that is animistic and vital.

Salón is a bridge between a performance and a social event. During the evening, 17 performers and the audience share the same space; participating in the various emotional and physical landscapes that are conjured throughout the piece, a social transfiguration can be experienced. Salón challenges the boundaries between presenting and watching, suggesting a reciprocal process of seduction between those who decide to witness and those that perform.

When does social dancing become a ritual of the body? How can we re-discover the visceral and universal need of dancing? Salón is a place we know from our memories where, like in a dream, we can have a second chance to behave without restrictions. Here, madness is the beauty we find, a way to bring us back together.

Founded in 1991, BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange is a multifaceted community performing arts center located in Park Slope, Brooklyn offering an annual presenting season, artist services, and educational programs for youth and adults.

The Artists-in-Residence and the Space Grant Programs are supported, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties. Additional support has come from public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

For more information about BAX and its programs please call 718-832-0018, emailpress@bax.org or visit us on the web at www.bax.org.