Studio 210

11/03/2024

"Project 2025 closes the door for artists to make a living if they create any content that doesn't perpetuate white cultural hegemony."

From The 2024 Election and Artistic Freedom by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver

This article appeared in the Fall 2024 issue of In Dance. Read more at the link in our bio.

Photo by Gordon Allen
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https://dancersgroup.org/2024/10/the-2024-election-and-artistic-freedom/

10/29/2024

Another festival added to our loooong list!!!

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10/04/2024

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06/13/2024

Meet our second Summer 2024 Resident: Kat Lin!

Kat Lin is a freelance dancer/choreographer based in the Bay Area. Her choreography is an outlet for her curiosity - where she explores random topics - and to hang out with friends. Her works have been shown by Performance Primers and Safehouse Arts. As a dancer, she has worked with Kinetech Arts.

Through the residency, Kat will develop "the point," a new contemporary dance theater piece that contemplates one simple question—what is the point? Through movement and visual puns, this choreography is inspired by anything that misses or hits the point - the gesture of pointing, garden path sentences, pointe shoes, laser pointers, philosophy, mathematical points on a line, bullseye targets. We’ll pull from philosophy, math, pedestrian movement, and linguistics, and many other disciplines. The choreography unfolds as a series of vignettes, each offering glimpses into the elusive nature of meaning and understanding. The piece is all about the point of art—how we miss it, how we don't, and why we try to find it.

Self portrait by Kat Lin

06/11/2024

Meet one of our Summer 2024 Residents: Nico Maimon!

Originally from Mexico City, Nico Ortiz Maimon is a q***r Bay Area performer, choreographer, educator, and community organizer. She also works with children, performs drag, and plays drums in a punk band called gutfux. Nico has had the pleasure to work with Estrellx Supernova, Nina Haft, Bianca Cabrera, David Herrera, Christine Cali, Kim Ip, Eric Garcia, Cookie Harrist, and others. She uses art to push beyond the confines of our systemic reality and create tangible examples of the imagined.

Through the Studio 210 Residency, Nico Maimon (in collaboration with Kim Ip,) will begin to develop dance-theatre work, THIRTEEN, inspired by the 2013 film of the same name. Blending themes and aesthetics from the film with our own coming of age, we will explore themes of dark suburbia, mother-daughter complexities, substance abuse, and class divide. I hope to reveal the gut wrenching complexity of teenage girlhood, specifically as it is used as a tool for American assimilation.

Self portrait by Nico Maimon

05/18/2024

Announcing Studio 210 Summer 2024 Residents📢

Congratulations Kat Lin & Nico Maimon! We can't wait to see the work that you develop through this residency!

Learn more about each of the residents and the program by visiting https://deborahslater.org/residency

Thank you to all those that applied! Mark your calendar for the culminating performance + discussion on July 26 & 27, in-person + livestream.


Images:
1 - Nico Maimon by Hillary Goidell
2- Kat Lin by Jingjing Liu

05/04/2024

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01/12/2024

Introducing another wonderful Studio 210 Winter Resident: Andrea Rodriguez!

Andrea Rodriguez is a Latina-Xicana-Mexican American multidisciplinary dance artist, choreographer, pilates instructor, actress, and filmmaker. Her artistic process stems from breaking the silence of substance abuse and mental health in the Latinx community by healing generational trauma through dance, theater, spoken word, video, and technology.

Andrea will use the residency to continue develop “La Rumba No Para” (The Rumba Doesn’t Stop), a salsa love story about growing up in San Francisco, La Misión. Created by Andrea Rodriguez, the piece traverses through the streets surrounding 24th Street, where a melding of family secrets, culture, Latinx music and dance are explored through the themes of love, loss, and addiction.

We can’t wait to see how this work takes shape through the residency!


Headshot of Andrea Rodriguez by Robbie Sweeny

01/10/2024

Meet one of our fabulous Studio 210 Winter 2024 Residents: Emma Andre!

Emma Andre (they/she) is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher based in Oakland. They graduated from Boston Conservatory with a BFA in contemporary dance in 2021. After graduating Emma lived in NYC as a freelance performer and teacher. Since moving to Oakland, Emma has been focusing on her choreographic pursuits.

Throughout their residency, Emma will develop a new work, focusing on their relationship with femininity throughout their life. From Emma: “Using music as a catalyst I will explore the freedom I felt in my childhood, the contradictory expectations put on young women, and the deconstruction of these ideals culminating in the reconstruction of my authentic self.”

We’re looking forward to seeing how this piece develops!



Headshot of Emma Andre by Henry Winslow

01/03/2024

Our Studio 210 Winter Residents start this week, and we couldn't be more excited! Please welcome Emma Andre & Andrea Rodriguez to the studio, with guest mentorship by David Herrera.

Follow along as they dive into the creative process for the next 8 weeks, and catch the culminating performance + discussion on March 1 & 2, 2024. Full details at deborahslater.org/residency