The Tank Presents FOR THE LOVE OF... 1/21, 1/24, 1/28

"For the Love of..." plays Sunday, February 21, 2010; 7:30pm - $14, Wednesday, February 24, 2010; 7:30pm - $14, Sunday, February 28, 2010; 7:30pm - $14 at The Tank at 354 W. 45th Street, New York, NY 10036

For the Love of... is a constellation of three visceral and absurd dance plays. In a mash-up of classical text, contemporary movement and pop culture, the profound becomes pedestrian and the mundane, magnetic. It's about dead guys like Chekhov and Kafka and Shakespeare. It's about loving a bookcase. It's about being a beefcake. It's about wanting too much.
It's dance, but it's not dance.
It's choreographed emotion.

The three pieces are entitled: "Falling", "Excess" and "Corpus".

Falling is a meditation on falling love, falling in lust and falling out of love, throught he lens of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Originally commissioned by Flux Theater Ensemble. Featuring: Petra Denison, Jean Goto, Jennifer Griffee, Jennifer Moses, Katy Rubin and Sonja Sweeney.

Excess looks at our society's obession with and intense love for stuff though Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Through movement, we invesitgate how our materialism has manifested itself into lonliness, isolation, and disconnection in exchange for the satisfaction of inanimate objects. Featuring: Jean Goto, Jennifer Moses, Katy Rubin and Sonja Sweeney.

Corpus examines our infatuation with the human body using text from Kafka's The Metamorphosis. Today we have all but lost the idea of the body as a functional instrument. While magazines, reality TV and the movie industry bombard us daily with images of how we should be, an all-male cast will scrutinize our obsession with the aesthetics of the human form. Featuring: Patrick Berger, J.J. Mehren, Karim Muasher and Justin Neal.

The Anthropologists are a company of artists dedicated to the creation of investigative, socially relevant, and engaging theatrical work. We train together on a regular basis using physical theater and contemporary dance techniques to devise organic, ensemble-based work. We are committed to researching topics from an anthropological perspective in order to break down and unleash cultural discoveries.

Artistic Team:

Melissa F. Moschitto, Director/Movement
Andrew Merkel, Lighting Design
Alexandra Rubin, Costume Design
Louise Gough, Dramaturg

Production Team:
Aaron Tindall, Stage Manager
Aisha Jordan, Cherie Roberts: Assistant Producers

Crew Biographies:

Alexandra H. Rubin is thrilled to be back with The Anthropologists! Alexandra's recent costume design credits include Electricidad and Macbeth at Hofstra University and Give Us Bread with The Anthropologists. Alexandra will also be premiering her first original musical this February with writing partner Mark Sanderlin. Lots of love to friends, family, roommates, and everyone at The Anthropologists, especially Melissa!

Louise Gough is an Australian dramaturg and script editor currently based in New York City. She works as Development Executive for Robyn Kershaw Productions in Melbourne, Australia, as Literary Fellow at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City, and as a script development Advisor to Sources 2 throughout Europe. She manages a busy freelance career as script editor and dramaturg across theatre, film and television and worked with The Anthropologists on GIVE US BREAD in 2009.

Cherie A. Roberts is a collaborative theater artist, with a background in classical ballet and a focus on creating and stimulating new work. Cherie graduated from Temple University's Theater Department in 2002, and later attended the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA and the Moscow Art Theater/Vahktangov Institute in Moscow, Russia. Cherie is primarily a producer and performer with young, emerging companies and artists, and has worked everywhere from off-Broadway to the Philadelphia Fringe and Spark Festivals.

Andrew J. Merkel (lighting designer) Andrew is a lighting and sound designer, dramaturg and director. He has designed for Studio Six Theatre, Hedgerow Theatre Company, Cardboard Box Collaborative, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Chinese Opera of Philadelphia, and many small theatre and dance companies, industrial events, and for his own directing work. Andrew was a resident Lighting Designer at Swarthmore College's Lang Performing Arts Center for 3 years and also was the Associate Production Manager and Master Electrician at Stellla Adler Studio of Acting. Andrew holds an M.A. in Theatre from Villanova University.

Aisha Jordan graduated from Eugene-Lang College at The New School with her BA in Theater and The Arts. She was born and raised in Amherst, MA performing in theater around Western Massachusetts for many years. Since moving and studying in NYC Aisha has performed and or worked with, New Victory Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, 13P, The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Brotherhood Sister-Sol, Lyrical Circle, the Nuyorican Poets Café, Bowery Poetry Club, and The Hemispheric Institute. Aisha has also devoted many years to the performance group Project 2050. She is currently working on efforts to form her own interdisciplinary theater arts production company inspired by the work and teachings of Sekou Sundiata. Aisha is delighted to be working with The Anthropologists for the first time and hopes to continue working with them in the future.

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