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Arts On Site is a women-run nonprofit arts organization dedicated to providing artists with opportunities to create and perform new works. With a performance space in the East Village and a residency center in upstate NY, AOS is able to provide artists with an expanse of opportunities for artistic development.

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X marks the spot

This evening encompasses a collection of works created by Gabi Scheele and Isabel Torok—an exploration of the mercurial forces that govern our lives and the wishes we harbor deep within. 

 

Artist: Gabi Scheele 

From the Well

Performers: Eden Araten, Ashton Eatchel, Charlotte Pico, Isabel Torok

Music Credit: 

Girl With the Silver Eyes by: Oren Ambarchi 

The Nymph Rising, Calling the Sailor by: Joanna Brouk 

California Sutra #2 by: Nadi Qamar 

Aeroplane by: Ben Bertrand, Manah Depauw

The Sounding by: Joanna Brouk 

Costumes: Gabi Scheele 

From the Well resides in a world in which hope and hopelessness coexist in delicate tension. It is a place of whispered wishes cast into unseen depths. This contemporary dance work reveals how pursuit of luck can evolve into a kind of addiction. We turn to ritualistic behavior driven by the desire to reclaim that transient feeling. Luck, then, becomes rhythmic—an alternating current of fortune and misfortune. Luck isn’t something you can grip onto, it rests in your palms and decides when it leaves. 

 

Artist: Isabel Torok

Figureheads

Performers: Mark Dilorio, Ry Miller, Gianna Scorzo, Gabi Scheele, and Caitlyn Zaniewski 

Music Credit:

Elisabeth Klinck, Nils Vermeulen

Chantal Michelle

TORSO

David Boulter

Sofie Birch, Antonina Nowacka 

Pattern Is Movement

Costumes: Isabel Torok

Figureheads moves through the fog of myth and truth. The sea, a ship, and its lone figurehead converge in this contemporary dance work comprised of two trios. History imbues power into words, symbols, places, etc.,and the intense superstition that haunts maritime history has long regarded women as figures of both bad luck and protection. Diving into this contradiction, the work draws from the tradition of ships’ figureheads and adornments—of which a majority were likenesses of women. 

 

Because nothing ends

Created and performed by Gabi Scheele and Isabel Torok

Music Credit:

Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord/Butterfly Sunday by Harold Budd

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