Spark(edIt) Arts newly introduced “Soft Openings” is an evening of performance reflective of its founder, Nadia Tykulsker’s desire to engage in performance as research. Tykulsker is the artistic director of Spark(edit) Arts, a forum to bring artists and dancers together to make collaborative works of dance-theater. Having received much support from Triskelion Arts as an emerging choreographer, she offered to share an evening of performance, originally exclusively for her company, with others to support for works-in-progress and advocate for performance research with production aid. As a previous employee of Dance New Amsterdam’s production department, Tykulsker understood the importance of production research alongside the creative process and invited two other choreographers, Tyler Ashley and Saul Ulerio, who work with similar questions yet different aesthetics, to share the evening with her. According to Tykulsker, all three works relate to the hybrid nature of living (our private and public personas for example) and carry multi-referential imagery. Tykulsker was compelled when she saw Ashley and Ulerio’s work in two studio settings, without tech, and wanted to give them production support no matter the stage of their process. Saw You Yesterday by Tykulsker, preparatory exercise no. 10:nodancer by Ulerio and KIDNAP ME by Ashley are all new pieces or new versions of recent works. […]
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