Where:
Harvard Dance Center
60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
$25+
Categories:
Art, Date Idea, Music, Performing Arts
Event website:
https://americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/study-effort
Part of the Run AMOC! Festival
This performance contains nudity and is suitable for ages 18+.
Conceived by Bobbi Jene Smith
Featuring Bobbi Jene Smith and Keir GoGwilt
A Study on Effort explores connections between sound, body and duration. An hour-long dialogue between dancer Bobbi Jene Smith (formerly of Tel Aviv’s Batsheva Dance Company and subject of Bobbi Jene, the Tribeca Film Festival’s 2017 award winner for Best Documentary) and violinist Keir GoGwilt (soloist with the Chinese National Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago, and others; Harvard ’13), the piece transposes different physical and emotional tasks between music and movement, finding pleasure at the boundaries of the two artistic disciplines.
A Study on Effort was originally conceived by Bobbi Jene Smith in 2014 and has since had showings at Studio Varda, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Gibney Dance, and the Israel Museum. In 2016, Smith and GoGwilt collaborated on a new version of the show, which has been presented at the 2016 Luminato Festival in Toronto and PS 122's COIL Festival in 2017.