Mobius Live/This Is Dance!

About Mobius Live at the Dance Complex:
Mobius presents an evening of performance featuring the work of Michael Figueroa, Laila Franklin, Loculus (Olana Flynn and Madison Palffy), and Audrey MacLean, curated by Jimena Bermejo.
Four artists rooted in experimentation, humor, and curiosity. Don't miss this evening of work that plays with the edges of dance and performance.

This event will take place in Studio 7, which is fully ADA compliant and located on the ground floor of The Dance Complex.

About the Artists:

MOBIUS ARTISTS GROUP:

Mobius is a Boston-based artists’ collective committed to creating original, experimental work in all media. Mobius, Inc. is an artist-run non-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization that creates opportunities to generate, shape and test experimental art. Since 1975, we have been a regional and transnational laboratory for supporting and building relationships among fellow artists. Mobius is recognized as one of the seminal alternative artist-run organizations in the US and has presented work involving thousands of artists over the past 40 years. Works created by our members have been presented throughout North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Several notable exchanges with artists from Ireland and the UK, Croatia, Macedonia, Poland, and Taiwan have focused on public sites as incubators for discourse.

MICHAEL FIGUEROA:

Michael Figueroa (he/him) is a performer, choreographer, and director of Ruckus Dance. His work navigates rule-breaking, rote and body memory, personal narrative, improvisation, and audience participation. His choreography has been commissioned by SPACE Gallery (ME), Dance Now Boston, Outside the Box Festival, Mobius Artists Group, and The Dance Complex. Michael was an inaugural teacher with Midday Movement Series, and has taught classes and workshops at Gibney Studios, NACHmo Boston, Moving Target Boston & Portland, Boston Arts Academy, and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, and Momentum Dance & Events. He is currently a Teaching Fellow in Dance at Smith College.

LAILA J. FRANKLIN:

Laila J. Franklin (she/they) is a multidisciplinary dance artist based in Boston, MA. Her practice extends from lineages of traditional and experimental Black, queer dance makers, exploring the collision of postmodernism and story ballet.

Laila has been commissioned by Brown University, Salem State University, and Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and presented through Movement Research at The Judson Church, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Boston Center for the Arts, and Cotuit Dance Festival, among others. Laila has been a performer in projects with Miguel Gutierrez, Stephanie Miracle, Ruckus Dance, and detritus dance. Laila holds an MFA from the University of Iowa, a BFA from The Boston Conservatory, and is a proud alumna of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

LOCULUS:

LOCULUS is the ongoing collaboration between Olana Flynn and Madison Palffy. Their work together bridges and weaves performance, dance, sound-making, education, and curation.

Founded in 2015, LOCULUS has performed throughout the Northeast, been guest choreographers at multiple festivals and schools, performed on television, taught master classes in improvisation and collaborative dance-making, published six print and three online journals, and curated over 50 events including four three-day festivals. Since opening their studio in Holyoke in 2022, LOCULUS has taught a weekly community class for over two years and presented the work of more than 40 local and regional artists through workshops, performances, and talks.

AUDREY MACLEAN:

Audrey MacLean is a New England-based dance/performance artist. Her choreographic and dance film work have been included in DanceNOW Boston, DanceNOW NYC, the Dance on Camera Festival at Symphony Space, and InShadow Screendance Festival in Lisbon, Portugal. She has ben a Maine Arts Commission Artist Project Grant awardee, a Retreat Artist at Bearnstow, and is currently a d0ll0p cohort artist at Subcircle.

Audrey has taught at Berklee College of Music, The Dance Complex, The Foundry, Moving Target Boston, and is currently on faculty at Bates College. She has performed in work by artists including: Jimena Bermejo, Morgan Griffin, Heidi Henderson, Grant Jacoby, Annie Kloppenberg, Betsy Miller, Ruckus Dance, and others.

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