The Tank Presents 'New Works: Jessica Morgan:' Failure Is Physical 12/4-5

The Tank: home for emerging arts presents "New Works: Jessica Morgan" Friday, December 04, 2009; 9:30pm - $12 Saturday, December 05, 2009; 7:30pm - $12
Location: The Tank at 354 W. 45th Street, New York, NY 10036

Emotional and physical responses that ensue confront the personal meanings of illness and the stigma and shame that often accompany it. Words cannot truly describe the experience of your body failing you. It is a force that makes us confront our mortality and weakness and can halt what we deem as "living".

"Failure is Physical" is an evening-length dance work exploring the illness experience. Jessica Morgan's work has been hailed as "unsettling and transfixing" (Dance View Times). Her new work deems the illness experience as an event of grief, suffering and healing. It investigates the symbiosis of the mind and body during illness and physical failings. Dance, song and text create a world where medicine straddles the line of miraculous and terrifying.

"Failure is Physical" is performed by Jessica Morgan, Lindsay Lee,Colleen Cintron, Marie Douesnard, Ula Gadea and Miranda Lyon. Original music by John Huber.
Jessica Morgan is a 2009 grant recipient of the Lower Manhattan Culture Council's Manhattan Community Arts Fund. Her work has been featured in Movement Research's Critical Correspondence Journal as "a kind of female ferocity that hasn't been seen in a long time." She performed her first evening length work at the Bushwick Starr in Bushwick, Brooklyn in June 2008. She was also a 2007 recipient of Dance Theater Workshop's Outer/Space Creative Residency. Her work has been presented at Fresh Tracks at Dance Theater Workshop, Food for Thought at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, Movement Research at the Judson Church, UnderExposed at Dixon Place, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Performance Mix Festival, BAX First Weekends, Dance Conversations at the Flea, Dance Place in Wahington D.C, and Studio 303 in Montreal among others. She has enjoyed dancing with Mariah Maloney, Juliette Mapp, Kathy Westwater, Stephanie Tack, Rebecca Davis, and Ursula Eagly. She is originally from New York City and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase.

For more info visit www.jessicamorgandance.wordpress.com.

"Failure is Physical" is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

About The Tank
Founded in 2003, The Tank is a non-profit arts presenter whose mission is to provide a welcoming, creative, collaborative, and affordable environment for artists and activists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas. Through a wide range of low-cost, high-concept arts and public affairs programming, The Tank seeks to cultivate a new generation of audience for live performance, civic discourse, and the work of emerging artists.