JENNIFER NUGENT
passionville
July 14 & 15, 2021
Created and Performed
Jennifer Nugent
Film & Editing
Tori Lawrence
Projection Design/Installation
Tori Lawrence, Seth Wenger
Set Design
Anna Wotring
Blake Wotring
Jennifer Nugent
Sound
Ted Coffey
The Sounds Research Forum
Pink Noise Therapy
Production Collaborator
Anna Wotring
Lighting Design
Matt Morris
Dramaturgy and Process Support:
Meredith Glisson
Lilach Orenstein
Jennifer Nugent is originally from Hollywood, Florida and has been living and working in New York City since 1998. Through performing and teaching she aims to nurture the proposition of physicality as a theoretical and complex language that resides inside a rejuvenating container of possibility. Jennifer continues to augment these practices through sharing and refining ideas in front of others—a transmission of spoken and gestural language.
Jennifer's practices are inspired by Gerri Houlihan, Dale Andree, Daniel Lepkoff, Wendell Beavers, Janet Wong, Patty Townsend, and Thomas F. DeFrantz. Jennifer has performed most notably with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, David Dorfman Dance and has been making collaborative evenings with dancer Paul Matteson for the past 20 years. In 2019 Jennifer received an MFA in dance from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is currently teaching at Sarah Lawrence College and freeskewl.
Tori Lawrence is a choreographer/filmmaker who creates site-specific performances and dance films. She has taught at Middlebury College, University of Kansas, Franklin & Marshall College, Drexel University, Wilson College, Trinity College, and will be at Bennington College this Fall. Her choreography has been supported by New England Foundation for the Arts, Dance Films Association, Vermont Arts Council, and Lighton International Artists Exchange. She has been awarded residencies and fellowships from Yaddo, Djerassi, Playa, Chez Bushwick, Ucross Foundation, Charlotte Street Foundation, Brunakra, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Dance Ireland, and Hungary’s Workshop Foundation. She is currently collaborating with dance artists Sara Shelton Mann (San Francisco) and Jennifer Nugent (NYC). www.torilawrence.org
Anna Wotring, a community-minded dance artist and production stage manager, in the process of moving to France, frequently collaborates with Jennifer Nugent in multiple capacities ranging from class assistant and student to rehearsal director and technical consultant. Catch a glimpse of Wotring on her Instagram, @AnnaIsSuperCool, where she presents her digital choreographic work with a dash of humor.
Blake Wotring is a technician helping people enhance their lives and their art whenever he can.
Seth A. Wenger is a public historian and sound designer captivated by the relationship of sound and place. He holds a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale, with an emphasis on early American Music History and Public Humanities. Currently, under an affiliate research position at Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, his work with Brothertown Indian Nation and the Indian Melodies (1845) tunebook is an effort to decolonize Native American archives through novel sound technologies for digital repatriation. His site-based creative practice in sound design, composition, and experimental vocal performance has been supported by various grants and residencies and performed nationally and internationally.
Matt Morris is a Brooklyn-based lighting designer with a varied pool of lighting experience including theater, dance and movement, comedy, and even theme park design. He has had the privilege of designing at Triskelion Arts since 2019 and collaborating with amazing artists on projects such as Jamal Jackson's "grEeneR grASsEs", 2nd Best Dance's "Red", and Nicole Wolcott's "Luggage Lost". He is very excited to be a part of the Backyard Series and help support the artists and creative minds making great art.
Jennifer would like to extend a special thank you to Rachel Mckinstry for this performance opportunity. This event was made possible through a residency at MOtiVE Brooklyn, a space subsidy grant throughTriskelion Arts, and for the generous support and feedback from Adrian Jones, Evelyn Maude, Blake Wotring, Anna Wotring, Juli Brandano, Ariel Lembeck, Em Papineau, and Sofia Engelman.
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We respectfully acknowledge that the work of Triskelion Arts is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape peoples. We pay our respects to their land, water, and ancestors, past, present, and future. This acknowledgment demonstrates a commitment to the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism and to learning to be better stewards of this land.