OPEN AiR | Endless Holes: Rebecca Patek, Alex Rodabaugh, and Anh Vo

Endless Holes is a shared evening of new work in development by 2024 Artists-in-Residence Rebecca Patek, Alex Rodabaugh, and Anh Vo. Each work is a continuation of the artist’s research in multi-part or iterative performance projects: Rebecca Patek revisits Tough Titties, exploring depolarization, binary fatigue, and mystic shorelines; Alex Rodabaugh seeks to close their Break-Up Tunnel Vision Infinity project with a deep dive into nostalgia, cyberspace avatar puppetry, paranoia, and denial; and Anh Vo builds on their ongoing research into northern Vietnamese possession ritual, exploring the pussy as an energetic channel that can tune into the existential pain of others.

PROGRAM

Rebecca Patek: Tough Titties 2: View from the Other End
An offering towards the effort around depolarization. We are for and against each other, for or against objects, ideas, realities. The binary fatigue of thinking and feeling can lead us to venture further than we might otherwise travel. We seek a mystic shoreline that is spoken of, that is rumored, but can we find it? What do we have to lose? What do we have to do to get there? Can I get there? Can you? Can we? I have many questions clearly but basically I am trying and that's the best I can do.
Alex Rodabaugh: n-1
Looking for a path forward to close the Break-Up Tunnel Vision Infinity project and embrace the community that embraces me. The nth edition delves into the nostalgia that is colonizing our future, cyberspace avatar puppetry colliding with physical presence, and the paranoia or denial that arises from the perpetual threat of and participation in violence.
Anh Vo: pussy talks
pussy talks builds on Anh Vo's ongoing research into northern Vietnamese possession ritual, exploring the pussy as an energetic channel that can tune into the existential pain of others.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Rebecca Patek has created over twenty original performances. Her work is an amalgamation of comedy, theater and dance. She was an Artist in Residence at Movement Research, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and New York Live Arts’ Fresh Tracks. Work was presented at MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Impulstanz Vienna (Prix Jardin D’Europe Fan Award 2014), Museum of Arts and Design, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Abrons Arts Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research at Judson Church, BAX, Triple Canopy, Prelude Festival, Performance Mix Festival, and Dixon Place among many others. As a performer most recently she was thrilled to appear in work by Ryan McNamara, and currently can be caught honing skills at open mics around NYC.
Alex Rodabaugh is a choreographer, dancer, and performer from Lima, OH (Shawnee territory), based in NYC (Lenapehoking). Alex's work has been shown at Movement Research at Judson Church, Draftwork at Danspace, Double Plus at Gibney, PRELUDE, American Realness, and Dance and Process at The Kitchen. Alex most recently performed in Rebecca Patek’s Tough Titties. Alex has performed in works by artists such as Moriah Evans, Simone Forti, Tess Dworman, Miguel Gutierrez, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Doug LeCours, Derek Smith, and Bailey Williams among others, including two Bessie Award-winning performances. Alex is also a Treasurer/Co-Founder of Dance Artists’ National Collective and a current Artist-in-Residence at CPR – Center for Performance Research. www.alexrodabaugh.work.
Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer working primarily in NYC, with a second base in Hanoi. Their practice fleshes out the body as a vessel for apparitional forces. Their work is situated in the unlikely lineage convergences between Downtown New York experimental dance, queer and feminist performance art, and Vietnamese folk ritual practices. Their formal training is in Performance Studies, studying with theorists and practitioners at Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA).

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