DiverseWorks Presents Meg Wolfe's New FAITFUL DISCO in November

DiverseWorks is pleased to present the regional premiere of choreographer Meg Wolfe's new performance work, New Faithful Disco, on November 11 and 12, 2016at the Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (MATCH). Tickets are $15 (free for DiverseWorks and Dance Source Houston members) and may be purchased online at www.matchouston.org.

Co-commissioned by REDCAT, DiverseWorks, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Z Space, and the National Performance Network, New Faithful Disco is performed by Wolfe, taisha paggett, and Marbles Jumbo Radio with original music by Maria de Los Angeles "Cuca" Esteves. A lushly physical movement work, in New Faithful Disco, belief is made manifest as energy. A trio of dancers feels it, generates it, and remixes it as they prepare to take on something big. Love, faith, impermanence? Pleasure? Power? Soul retrieval? A queer-love power-trio wrought with awkwardness and contradictions, New Faithful Disco builds communal energy into an accumulated whirlwind propelled by nature sounds and disco rhythms. Bodies are the conduit: the site of intersections where dances are generated, transferred, translated and recycled in an attempt to remix revolution. Disco opens up time, triggers fading histories and provides a backdrop that frames who we are, now.

In the words of Wolfe:
I'm interested in energetic shifts both within the body and outwardly-how dancing presence can transform the energy of a space. I also feel a certain responsibility to be generous with an audience, to take them somewhere through a theatrical ritual.

New Faithful Disco brings together three queer-identified individuals with a range of gender expressions in a ritual of intense sound and movement through a series of shared inquiries. Disco is an accumulation of effort and hope in the form of a dance: a choreographic ritual for transforming identities in a transforming environment. The work presents an attempt at manifesting loving interrelationships, respect, encouragement, and negotiation. This dance, on an elemental level, is an embodiment of being others, together on stage. The essential nature of Disco aspires to pull together faith, energy, and curiosity about - and openness with - each other.

PERFORMANCE DETAILS
WHEN: Friday, November 11 & Saturday, November 12, 2016, 8 pm
WHERE: MATCH, Matchbox 2 - The Wortham Foundation Theater, 3400 Main Street, Houston, Texas
DURATION: Approx. 45 minutes followed by a brief talk-back with the audience
CREATED BY: Meg Wolfe
PERFORMED BY: taisha paggett, Marbles Jumbo Radio, Meg Wolfe
ORIGINAL MUSIC BY: Maria de los Angeles "Cuca" Esteves