This year’s 2024 Space Station Dance Residency Fundraising Event features “Cloven III,” an evening-length work by Jacob Henss in collaboration with Betsy Brandt. This duet, performed by both creators, is the third installment of an exploration of the rural relationship between farmer and bovine as a lens for personal reflection. The dairy cow is a site of industrialized sexuality and consumption, and the “Cloven” trilogy is an ode to this overlooked yet ubiquitous animal, symbol, and food source. This eccentric choreographic work lives at the intersections of experimental theater, contemporary dance, burlesque, and performance art. Its St. Louis debut will be followed by a series of performances throughout the Midwest this spring.
This piece does contain mild foul language and sexual content. It is recommended for mature audiences only and no children.
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We hire all kinds of dancers and pay them an hourly wage for their professional work with the intent to mingle with many different individuals of varying backgrounds. We look at diversity in training, race, gender, sexuality, age, and current dance career placement to purposefully gather artists of many backgrounds. This diverse melting pot of people shares space in ways they may not have been able to in their day-to-day lives. We hope this message of artistic and individual inclusivity transcends to our audience members and the St. Louis dance community to cultivate the future of dance we want to see in a city with a tumultuous history of segregation and violence.
The initial intent of the dance residency was to produce experimental dance choreography that probes investigative content. Alongside this, we turn unconventional spaces, like a gym or a church, into performative sites of creation and wonder. This informed the production side of our residency to include non-traditional production elements, like DIY or guerrilla lighting, original costumes, original soundscores, and many other make-it-work elements. This is an essential message of our residency: to illustrate to other artists that they don't need traditional elements associated with dance to produce a substantial choreographic work. In an industry lacking funding, you can produce dance on austere budgets yet still be refined.
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Space Station Dance Residency Fundraising Event "Cloven III"
By Jacob Henss in collaboration with Betsy Brandt
Performed by Jacob Henss & Betsy Brandt
3/9/2024 at 7:00 pm at Hope United Church of Christ
6273 Eichelberger St St. Louis, MO
Tickets Available at www.ticketsource.us/spacestation
Tickets: $25
To inquire about student ticket rates, please email spacestationdance@gmail.com.
For parking, the easiest option is to park on Eichelberger Street in street parking and enter from the south entrance which is the door on Eichelberger. There also is parking behind the church in a parking lot, but you will need to enter from the south entrance on Eichelberger still.