Jamestown Arts Center presents: Double Takes

The Jamestown Arts Center
(JAC) presents DOUBLE TAKES, an interactive dance and video
performance,for two nights this summer, Friday & Saturday, August 30
& 31 at 7:00pm.
The performance will feature independent
dancer, choreographer, and teacher Lance Gries, as well as extraordinary
New York dancers, including Jodi Melnick (Melnick has danced with the
Twyla Tharp Company, Mikhail Baryshnikov and is one of New York dance’s
favorite free-lance performers.) Jeanine Durning (Durning is a truly
independent dance and choreographer
artist, hugely respected for her fierce physicality and artistic
vision.) and K.J. Holmes (Holmes is one of the world’s leading
performers and teachers of contact improvisation. Time Out calls her a
“legendary improviser.”), who will collaborate in an improvisational
dance as they respond to moving images. After the performances there
will be a Q&A.

From 1985-1992, Gries was a member of the
Trisha Brown Dance Company. His work with that company has been honored
with a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award and a Princess
Grace Foundation Award. Lance Gries performed “Etudes for an Astronaut”
as the inaugural dance performance at the Jamestown Arts Center in the
summer of 2011.

Tickets:
$15 general public,
$12 JAC or Island Moving Company Members,
$25 for both performances ($20/ member)