Moving In SPACE: Works In Progress

Moving in SPACE: Works in Progress is a new contemporary dance/movement/performance series that for its debut will feature three works in development. The series aims to provide a much needed regional performance opportunity for works in development in the contemporary dance and performance scene. Three artists were selected through an open call by jurors choreographers/dancers Sara Juli, Riley Watts and Asher Woodworth to perform at SPACE’s inaugural Moving In SPACE performance. 

Join us after the three performances for a chance to move with a DJ set by Ben Spalding. 

The inaugural works-in-progress series performers are:

Sunny Hitt is a NYC-based freelance performer, choreographer and teaching artist. Her work has been presented in NYC at The Tank and Mark Morris Dance Center. In 2017 she choreographed the Real AD Show, a musical theater production at NYU Abu Dhabi. Most recently she served as Associate Choreographer for Soft Power a new musical by David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori, currently running at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. Sunny performs regularly with Ani Taj and The Dance Cartel. 

Orlando Hernández is a tap dancer, actor, and writer based in Providence, RI. He has presented his solo dance work at the Granoff Center at Brown University, AS220, Trinity Rep, the Providence Public Library, and La Casa de Cultura Ruth Hernández Torres (Río Piedras, Puerto Rico). As a member of Tap Kids and Cats Paying Dues, he performed around the US and abroad, including at the Tamaulipas International Dance and Theater Festival (Mexico), the Reopening of the Royal Theater Carré (the Netherlands), and on the Jerry Lewis Telethon. He has worked with Michelle Dorrance, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, and Dianne Walker, and has an ongoing collaboration with the pianist Jacob Sacks. 

Lauren Tosswill is a Portland-based, multidisciplinary sound and performance artist. She has been performing original solo sound and movement pieces since 2016 and has collaborated on live performance work with Kerry Anderson since 2014. Her debut record of experimental recordings called “my home in the year” was released in January of 2018 on the label enmossed.