Hoarded Stuff Performance presents PRACTICING at Boulder Creative Collective & Buntport Theater

Award-winning dance artist, Laura Ann Samuelson of Hoarded Stuff Performance, known for inventive performance works that renegotiate contemporary relationships to the body, community, objects, and spaces will present a new solo work titled practicing, first at the Boulder Creative Collective (February 23-25th), and then at Buntport Theater in Denver (March 3-5th). practicing will premiere in repertory with square product theatre's production of Damaris Webb's The Box Marked Black.

practicing is an examination of how meaning, logic, and quotidian codes accumulate and break down-how ideas collect form like dryer lint, how molting processes attend to inorganic material. Practicing tracks patterns of activity at rest and under pressure, approaching dancing as organizing in relationship to shifting realities.

"I am thinking about this work as opportunity to study how forms emerge into being. I am interested in widening our view to take in how patterns of composition/decomposition transport us from reality to another, physically, socially, personally, politically," says Samuelson.

Hoarded Stuff is in its fifth year of creating and presenting performance works in Boulder & Denver. Past Hoarded Stuff projects include collaboration with square product theatre in the creation and production of This Aunt is Not a Cockroach, Goodnight, Courtney Love - an examination of women in public space created with Joanna & The Agitators and performed in the North Boulder Recreation Center's leisure swimming pool, DO NOT FEAR IDEAS DO NOT FEAR DO NOT DO IDEAS (BMoCA), and FAILURE FESTIVAL - a weekend arts festival.

Laura Ann Samuelson is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, improviser and producer of new performance in Colorado. Her work teases into view undercurrents of intimacy, failure, assimilation, impulse, expectation, death, birth, transformation, cognition, connection and love at play in our world. She is interested in subjectivity, multi-dimensional emotional states, and at better understanding the slippery relationship between ordinary and extra-ordinary things.

She is a three-time recipient of the Encore! Performance Award at the Boulder International Fringe Festival, and has shown her work in Colorado, California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Germany, Sweden, and France. She was named one of Colorado's most creative minds in Susan Froyd's 100 Colorado Creatives Series in Denver's Westword (2014). She has been an artist- in-residence at the Colorado Conservatory of Dance and at SKOGEN arts in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her work has been supported by funding from the Boulder Arts Commission, the Awesome Foundation, and Boulder County Arts Alliance.

Laura Ann Samuelson teaches public dance classes improvisation and composition in Boulder. She has served as a teaching artist at Naropa University, Washington University in St. Louis' Study abroad program MADE in FRANCE, and at the &Now Festival (CalArts).

Laura Ann Samuelson/Hoarded Stuff envisions a Colorado citizenry that is activated-- individually and collectively- to contemplate and take stock of how we interact with the world as it currently exists.