Artist, Activist & Gardener Derek Jarman Conjured In Premiere Solo Performance, Oct. 19-23

JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) is a premiere performance collaboration between the dynamic ensemble force/collision and OBIE award-winning playwright Caridad Svic, playing October 19 and 23. Archival home movies, new video, sound and live performance merge together to reconstruct the essence of the cult figure, artistic legacy and punk movement. Jarman brings together a community of over 40 performers through video and sound, manipulated in real time in a daring and vulnerable performance by force/collision Founding Director John Moletress. Two artistic stories meld, unravel, collapse and find each other again as the past and present collide.

Jarman will be presented at Dance Place in Washington, D.C. on October 19 beginning at 7:00pm. Immediately following, Jarman will perform in London, UK on October 23 as part of underground, King's College's 2014 Arts & Humanities Festival. Jarman will then move to Unity Theatre in Liverpool on November 4 & 5 as part of Homotopia, the UK's foremost LGBT art & cultural festival.
Note: Jarman is presented at Dance Place in a double-bill with award-winning choreographer and performer, Stephen Clapp of Dance Box Theatre in his new work Windswept.

John Moletress is a queer artist who combines disciplines of design, performance and media. He is the Founding Director of force/collision, an interdisciplinary performance lab based in Washington, D.C. He has collaborated with such artists as Erik Ehn, Caridad Svich, Falk Richter, Maida Withers Dance Construction Company and Rebollar Dance Theatre. John works both nationally and internationally, having performed work at the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, La MaMa ETC, Queer NY International, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Manchester University (UK), among others. John Moletress is a contributing writer for HowlRound and Theatre Communications Group, and with force/collision, has been featured in American Theatre Magazine. Currently, he is the 2014-2015 Visiting Lecturer in the Theatre Arts department at McDaniel College.

October 19, 2014 at 7:00pm

Running order:

Windswept, Dance Box Theatre (50 min)
Jarman (all this maddening beauty), force/collision (65 min)

Dance Place, 3225 8th Street NE, Washington, D.C.

$25 Admission (Advanced Sales Only)

$30 General Admission at the Door

$15 College Students and Youth (17 & under)

$20 Dance Place Members, Seniors and Artists (Advanced Sales Only)

Online: www.danceplace.org

Call: (202) 269-1600