Who: Open to everyone!
What: 听"to get under, you have to lose,"听a CMAP performance
When: Friday & Saturday, Jan.听24 & 25, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Roser ATLAS Center, ATLAS Black Box Experimental Studio, Basement Level B2
Cost: FREE
Interested in attending?听
A new show by Laura Ann Samuelson opening听in the ATLAS Black Box on Friday, Jan.听24, will be the first performance in the space since it was flooded by a ruptured pipe in September 2018. With a set made of plywood and steel that, aptly, resembles a construction site, Samuelson describes the performance as exploring听"the gap between the laws of physics and the mechanics of a psyche." In their听solo performance, Samuelson navigates through and around the set, creating holes that cave in as fast as they are opened. Disoriented and destabilized by the听environment,听a kind of existential crisis ensues,听and the bid to reconcile to this uncomfortable reality becomes central to Samuelson's innovative work.
About the Artist
Laura Ann Samuelson听is听a choreographer and visual artist whose work follows the transmission of feeling across objects, sites and bodies, searching for new strategies to help us bear impermanence, attachments to living and to one another.听A performer in Michelle Ellsworth鈥檚 Post Verbal Social Network and an MFA student in the Department of Theatre &听Dance at CU Boulder, they were named one of Colorado鈥檚 most creative minds in Susan Froyd鈥檚 2014 鈥�100 Colorado Creatives,鈥� published by Denver鈥檚 Westword. They have collaborated with groups such as Joanna and the Agitators, square product theatre, Buntport Theater Company and Screw Tooth Theater Company, and their own work has been performed in a wide variety of venues, including swimming pools, warehouses, art galleries and loading docks. Samuelson was an artist-in-residence at the Denver Art Museum, Dance Initiative (Carbondale, Colorado), Colorado Conservatory of Dance and SKOGEN (Gothenburg, Sweden).
About ATLAS Center for Media, Art and Performance
This performance is presented by the ATLAS Institute鈥檚 Center for Media, Arts and Performance (CMAP), an incubator for experimental art-making methodologies, communities and outcomes.
