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sarah ingel
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(((pomegranate))) is a dance ritual and performance by choreographer sarah ingel + collaborators. Exploring contemporary rituals of care and mourning and of assembly and aliveness through an emotionally virtuosic choreographed ceremony. In this queer investigation of theatricality, alchemy, and grief, themes of memory + mythology, anatomy + architecture, capitalism + consumption intertwine with vibrant and symbolic fruits: mangos, grapefruits, watermelons... pomegranate: 1. a fruit the size of the heart 2. the etymological root for the word grenade With choreographed + improvised movement set to a text/music soundscape (a new collaboration with composer Dylan Gilbert), this performance serves as an invitation to dive deep into our own mythologies of grief. A mess of fruit, flowers, dance and dirt, together, we create an altar, a table, a memory, a ritual to hold us as we process complexities of loss and love. The action of cutting into a pomegranate is bloody and requires a delicate hand if you are to yield any fruit. The ritual demands urgency towards care. This duet nourishes, even inside the grief and gratitude that comes with cutting and consuming. What are the residues, the traces, the stains left behind as we are left bereft? Through our materializations and manifestations of assembly and aliveness, whether dance, performance, funeral, or feast: Can we consider how we might be forever changed by this encounter? Our grief knows no bounds, yet ritual requires endurance and endurance requires ritual.
NOTE: the 9/14 performance of this show has been canceled.
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September 19, 2024 5.00pm
1400 N American St
General Admission: $25
PWYC Options
September 22, 2024 8.00pm
1400 N American St
General Admission: $25
PWYC Options
September 29, 2024 6.30pm
1400 N American St
General Admission: $25
PWYC Options
About the Artist
sarah ingel is a choreographer and performance maker from Charlotte NC currently living in Philadelphia PA.
Focusing on effort, endurance, repetition, and emotional virtuosity, their work looks at contemporary mythologies, the rituals that connect us, and collective emotional phenomenon – love, grief, fear, rage, resistance, dreams, madness, + fantasy.
Practicing world building and myth making from a queer and feminist perspective, Ingel uses experimental, art rock, sci-fi and DIY methodologies to craft environments where the choreographic, emotional, and theatrical can interact. She aims to engage with empathy, vulnerability, and humanity while simultaneously playing with spectacle and stage technology.
Ingel graduated from University of North Carolina School of Arts with a concentration in Contemporary Dance/Composition, then received a BFA in Dance from Hollins University in partnership with the American Dance Festival. Ingel recently earned an MFA in Dance from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Her work has been showcased as a part of Charlotte Ballet’s Innovative Works (2021) and Choreographic Lab (2017, 2019, 2022) presented at Hi-Lites Music Fest (2020), alongside Nat Baldwin of the Dirty Projectors (2020), at BOOM CLT (2017, 2018), and Helene Simoneau Danse’s OnSite/InSight (2016).
@singelarity // sarahingel.com
Accessibility & Content Considerations
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This event is appropriate for ages 18+
Adult Language
Strobe/Flashing Lights
Fog/Smoke Effects
Using Food, Mess, etc.
Covid-19 Safety policy
Masks are required during this event
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