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Michelle Ellsworth

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Location
Boulder, CO
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Artist Website
Project Title
Post-Verbal Social Network
Fiscal Year Awarded
2018
Grant or Program
National Dance Project Production Grant
Grant Amount
$45,000

Post-Verbal Social Network (PVSN) employs pre-industrial technologies to augment the physical labor of choreography and community. Simple mechanical apparatuses (built into costumes and shoes) will comingle with choreography to extend dancers’ bodies and functions and illuminate how contemporary digital technology is impacting our bodies and our social interactions. PVSN will demonstrate what a physically productive, collaborative, non-language based, non-mediated, pre-industrial, human-to-human, 3D encounter looks and feels like. 
Estimated artist fee: $15,000/performance; $22,000/week

TOUR COORDINATOR

Emily Rea | emilyerea@gmail.com
Tour Manager
Michelle Ellsworth
tel 720.771.3380

PRESENTER PARTNER

  • The Chocolate Factory Theater (Long Island City, NY)
  • Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (North Adams, MA)
  • University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO)

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