Work in Progress Showing: Situations

Montreal choreographer George Stamos is the 2013 McKnight International Artist, a program coordinated by Northrop at the University of minnesota. Stamos will be in residence in Minneapolis June 10 - 22 to develop a new work titled Situations, working with selected local dancers at the JSB TEK BOX in Minneapolis.

"How can a choreography exist as a somatic blueprint for movement architecture and be rebuilt spontaneously by groups of men from one showing to the next through tasks, choice, and gesture? What aspects of maleness contribute to a collective process spread out through various cites at various times? An international extended “family” of male dancers (9 in Montreal and 6 in Minneapolis thus far) will collaborate in the creation of this project in 2013 / 2014. Various combinations of these men will perform in the finished work and the piece will exist in trio, quartet, quintet, and larger group formats."

—George Stamos

This program is made possible with the generous support of The McKnight Foundation.