Circles, fractals, spirals, dots, pauses, tension, temperature, lines, levels, and layers incessantly dialogue within a gesture. Minimal matter that is able to expand, collide, fission, and fuse fictionalize the space. Any dance, no matter how subtle, contains this transformational energy, and this tiny unit becomes the ground zero of choreography, the point of affection and mystery.

Choreographing Transmission is an open rehearsal by Amant resident artist and choreographer Ana Pi, exceptionally accompanied by New York dancers Morgan Gregory, Noel Olson, and Sarah Boyd. Together they will perform the first prototype for Atomic Joy, as part of Ana’s current research at Amant. Choreographing Transmission will feature a few songs from the album Big Sun by the experimental French pianist, composer, and arranger Christophe Chassol, which are among the tools for this laboratory. Alongside each other, we will publicly observe the instant in which, through transpiration and entanglement, one’s movement is transferred, multiplied, and also transmuted.

Choreographing Transmission is free and open to the public, after the event everyone is invited to an informal reception in our residency. All are welcome with prior registration.

For Your Reference is a series of events that spotlights our current artists in residence and gives them a platform to share ongoing conversations, research, and references.