Ben Asriel's RESURRECTION Plays at The Tank

"Resurrection: Ben Asriel"

About The Show

Encores of three recent works by dance, sound and video artist Benjamin Ford Asriel.

MINUTIAE ETUDE (solo) presents the awkward catharsis of a dystopian protagonist as he discovers Elton John and vulnerability.

I HATE NAKED (duet) places dancers Rebecca Breau and Meagan Vincent onstage with intimate footage of themselves speaking in private about difficult and mundane subjects. Interacting with the footage, the dancers are forced to deal with their past, their values, each other, and ultimately themselves...all on display for you.

In MY BODY IS ME, an intimate, austere, and personal solo, Benjamin shifts the camera to himself and his own body. Borrowing from a video of himself improvising as a child, Asriel investigates his own body as the reification of his identity and experience.

Asriel's work has been seen at Dance Theater Workshop, The Ohio Theater, the Chocolate Factory, Dixon Place, Movement Research at the Judson church, Danspace Project, and CPR - Center for Performance Research, is most well known for founding Project Paper Trail (http://www.basriel.com), a website that painstakingly documented both the fundraising efforts and artistic process that created his work 'We Have Become Beautiful'.

RESURRECTION short-lived dances back from the dead. Artists re-present their work and engage in an audience Q&A. Resurrection is curated by Alexandra Albrecht.

$5 student tickets will be available at the door.

Presale tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/100156

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.

Thursday, March 04, 2010; 7:30pm - $10
Friday, March 05, 2010; 7:30pm - $10
Location: The Tank at 354 W. 45th Street, New York, NY 10036
A, C, E, to 42nd Street; 1, 2, 3, S, 7 to Time Square