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Putty Dance Project Performs at Crossroads Theatre on Saturday, October 10th at 8pm
"Going, Wanting in the Age of the Selfie"... "Put down your smartphone for 70 minutes to consider… where is our world going?"
WHEN: October 10, 2015 8:00pm
WHERE: Crossroads Theatre 7 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
TICKETS: Online via Who Is My Neighbor? Inc. OR via mail by sending a check to the WIMNI office: 19 S. 2nd Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904.
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TICKET PRICE: $20 general admission, $15 Students/Seniors
QUESTIONS: Please contact Lara 732-379-0897 or lara@whoismyneighbor.net.
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Who Is My Neighbor? Inc. proudly presents Putty Dance Project’s Going, Wanting in the Age of the Selfie. Conceived to entertain and engage audiences, Going, Wanting is collaborative dance theater production bringing together modern jazz dance choreography, future jazz music scores, live instrumentation, monologue and digital media into a thematic narrative. Audiences explore the motives and emotions surrounding human nature in a fast paced digital society where it seems being social and being mobile have merged into one being.
This performance is a fundraiser to support the community-based programs of Who Is My Neighbor? Inc.
Use of Crossroads Theatre was made available through the generosity of Johnson & Johnson, Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission/Board of Chosen Freeholders and New Brunswick Cultural Center, Inc.
About the production
Going, Wanting in the Age of the Selfie propositions its audience… “Put down your smartphone for 70 minutes to consider… where is our world going? What do I want out of life? How does technology play a role?”
Conceived to entertain and engage general, everyday audiences, Going, Wanting uses creative and performing art forms to ‘post public comment on the wall’ about society’s everyday intimate interface with social media.
Weaving together contemporary choreography, music scores, live jazz instrumentation, monologue and digital media into a thematic narrative, Going, Wanting offers audiences a journey to explore the motives and emotions surrounding human nature in today’s fast-paced digital era.
Featuring new choreography by Lauren Putty White alongside production members Brenda Li, Jesse Jones, and Erin Burgmayer, Going, Wanting features a fusion of styles and techniques spanning jazz to postmodern, hip-hop to Horton. Putty-White’s choreography is set to a future jazz music score composed by husband, Brent White, and is accented by live improvisation performed by White on trombone and Craig Ebner on guitar. Actor Christina May weaves between live performance scenes to engage audiences with monologue. Fourth-wall down, May delivers personalized struggles and wins with selfies, cyber speak and online dating. Digital media montages designed by Phil Sumpter, edited by Dave Jannetta, aid the audience’s experiential journey.
As society acknowledges the World Wide Web is here to stay, Going, Wanting poses the fundamental questions, “Are we GOING too fast, WANTING too badly to be noticed in a seemingly infinite sea of options and information?”
