Monthly Archive for July, 2008

the Modern Garage Movement is here this Friday and Saturday, 25 and 26!

Published on July 23, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Last sum­mer, we made first con­tact with a superb group of artists called Mod­ern Garage Move­ment. We threw an excel­lent party. We are doing it again and, this year, you have two chances to get in on the lively and stun­ning action. bodyc­ity will screen two short films and MGM will dance in, around, and trough each one of us. Don’t miss it!

Fri­day, July 25
Betalevel
963 N. Hill Street
10pm
bar

Direc­tions:
Find your­self in front of “FULL HOUSE RESTAURANT” located at 963 N. Hill Street in Chi­na­town.
Locate the alley on the left hand side of Full House.
Walk about 20 feet down the alley (away from the street).
Stop.
Notice dump­ster on your right hand side.
Take a right and con­tinue down the alley.
Exer­cise cau­tion so as not trip on the wob­bly cement blocks under­foot
The entrance to Betalevel is located 10 yards down on left side,
behind a red door, down a black staircase.

Sat­ur­day, July 26
meagan’s house
250 North Avenue 57
LA, CA 90042
(you know where it is or you can google this one)
BYOB

See you there!
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the details:

Booth Dance — Chore­o­graphed by Jen­nifer Lehman; Cam­era and Edit­ing by Jac­into Asti­azaran; with bodyc­ity (Made­line Baugh, Betsy Hume, Jen­nifer Lehman, Cristina Paul, Molly Rodgveller, Lake Sharp, Mea­gan Yellott)

Found Dance at Echo Park — filmed and edited by Jac­into asti­azaran
with bodyc­ity mem­bers Ali Hyman, Jen­nifer Lehman & Cristina Paul

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Mod­ern Garage Move­ment is a col­lab­o­ra­tive endeavor between Feli­cia Bal­los, Biba Bell, Jmlly Leary, Theo Angel, and Robert McNeil. This project explores the rela­tion­ships between dis­ap­pear­ance and metamorphosis.

New Gree is a dance on tour that not only hap­pens any­where, but is hap­pen­ing all the time. The fash­ions worn on the road are the cos­tumes of the dance. The ter­rain of the per­for­mance is demar­cated by props; flags, lights, tarps, mir­rors, jibs and pro­jec­tions. MGM’s rock band con­cept is trans­formed into a band of cow-boygirls and the New Gree group is always on guard, ready for long still­nesses, quick get­aways, telepa­thy and remon­strance. An aim, but not goal of New Gree, is to dance in com­plete uni­son with eyes closed, nav­i­gat­ing safely through den­si­ties of peo­ple and space. Ulte­ri­orly, the chore­og­ra­phy works with shift­ing for­ma­tions of energy and hyper-reality in rela­tion to the mobile audi­ence, build­ing addi­tive lay­ers of past and future per­for­mances, past and future influ­ences, and link­ing every­one and every­thing in the accu­mu­la­tive jour­ney of now.

b-city cruisin’: LA, SD, SF, HOLLYWOOD

Published on July 21, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Before too much time passes, we must mark and remark on what was our first tour…the mini-ist and most awe­some west coast-inental “have a Glasser of Lemon­ade for your bodyc­ity” Tour, Sum­mer Jams 2008. A recap:

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The Smell, Los Ange­les — Thurs­day, July 10th
High­lights: Nite Jewel; the super friendly home-town crowd; Lemon­ade blew our minds.
Weird­lights: Hav­ing to sign release forms for stand­ing within cam­era range of an ongo­ing indie film (but it was kind of cool too…they wanted to film our per­for­mance, but when it came down to it, it was their big lights or our dance floor.…naturally they had to move).
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House Party, San Diego — Fri­day, July 11
High­lights: all the cool kids in San Diego mate­ri­al­ized at this party, then squeezed into what was the tin­ni­est place we’ve ever danced, a baby base­ment about 7 feet tall; mak­ing tiny ver­sions of our dances; dirty sweat fling­ing and shov­ing.
Weird­lights: traf­fic; hav­ing to change into our cos­tumes in front of a giant win­dow; no hoist­ing Molly into the air; hav­ing to go home almost imme­di­ately so we could hit the road to SF.


Grey Area Bea­con, San Fran­cisco — Sat­ur­day, July 12
High­lights: we rented a behe­moth 15 pas­sen­ger van; we got there in time for a romp with a ridicu­lous puppy, a reunion with our Nor­cal friends, and a round of Bloody Marys; we started a seri­ous dance party; Evan SNJ let us crash all over his house in Modesto that night.
Weird­lights: mys­te­ri­ous banana disappearance

sleepersBastille Day Cel­e­bra­tion, W Hol­ly­wood — Sun­day, July 13
High­lights: Adele Jacques, the event’s coor­di­na­tor, a new but already good friend who gave us the most touch­ing and well-spoken intro­duc­tion we’ve ever had; our “eF-it, I’m so freak­ing tired” atti­tude made this our best per­for­mance.
Weird­lights: the morn­ing sun after 10 hours of sleep in 3 days know­ing there’s a good six hours of road ahead of you; too much Star­bucks — it’s creepy.

In other words: Suc­cess! Wicked Positive.

Also, we’ve gotta men­tion our newest mem­ber, Alisha Adams! bodyc­ity is com­pletely thrilled to have her, she is true blue.

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Glasser was a stel­lar com­pan­ion. Cameron, Matt, Rebecca and Made­line kept things real and were always bang-on come per­for­mance time.
And, though we saw lit­tle of them on the road, the Lemon­ade dudes are excel­lent humans and we are so grate­ful to them for their orga­niz­ing prowess and easy attitudes.

With our first tour under the bodyc­ity belt, we have brave new thoughts on future tours and can’t wait to tell you about new stuff hap­pen­ing soon…

Tour with Glasser and Lemonade! What a summer time pair!

Published on July 8, 2008 in Uncategorized. 6 Comments

Well you gotta hand it to us folks. We are going on (an albeit mini) tour. Now, if you live in Cal­i­for­nia, you have no excuses for miss­ing out. And really why on earth would any­one ever want to miss out? Come. see. like.

Thurs­day July, 10 2008 at the Smell
w/ glasser, Lemon­ade & Nite Jewel
247 South Main Street, los ange­les, Cal­i­for­nia
$5
doors open at 9pm

Fri­day July, 11 2008 at TBA w/ glasser & Lemon­ade
House Party at 2220 Front Street, San Diego, California

Sat­ur­day July, 12 2008 at Grey Area Bea­con w/ glasser & Lemon­ade
1515 Fol­som, San Fran­cisco, California

Sun­day July, 13 Cel­e­brate Bastille Day at the Southland’s Best French Fes­ti­val!
In the West Hol­ly­wood Park
647 N. San Vicente Blvd.
noon-10pm
we play with glasser at 3:55pm

IMG_1745.jpgWe have merch now. Beau­ti­ful hand made ban­dan­nas and tote bags with silk screened designs by Claire and Tucker. Made by, for and out of bodycity.