Fluct: Master Class + Performance

FLUCT + LISA E HARRIS
Master Class & Performance 
limited capacity - 30 master class / 70 performance
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2016 VIA Festival Oct 6-9 
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Thrilled to present the Pittsburgh premier of Brooklyn-based performance duo FlucT and Houston-based artist and performer Lisa E Harris. 

"Their confrontational performance of femininity ... reveal an uncomfortable truth about modern desire and how it has been almost entirely permeated by the patriarchy.” – THE FADER / FlucT

“One of Fourteen Artists that are Transforming Opera” - Huffington Post / Lisa E. Harris 

✦ MASTER CLASS with FLUCT: Sissy Joker La Pieta 
1:30-3:00pm, 90min, plz arrive 15 min early

+Open to All levels 
+Wear breathable clothing, knee pads
+15-20 minute exercises creating duo-based choreography that mimics Fluct technique. Cool down in Ignorant Gravity (an authentic movement exercise developed by FlucT).

Our mind and bodies ​are constantly absorbing​ ​the information of life, trauma, fee​d/​scroll ​and this experience is not always willingly. When not actively processed, culture ​appears in our physicality ​and becomes an interruptive discomfort​​​. Sissy Joker La Pieta is a class that navigates these processes through performance and dance using techniques derived from Butoh, Authentic Movement, Weight​-​Bearing Acrobatics and ​the ​original Fluct techniques of Gaping-Gushing-Glitching. Aimed at creating a movement cycle that activates cerebral processing through ​the​ body with sounds created by Fluct.

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✦ PERFORMANCE with FLUCT + LISA E. HARRIS
6:30-8:00pm, doors 6pm

A short selection of works from Afronaut(a) Issue 3 DVD screened before show. 

FLUCT - AGAPE / CONTROL TOPS
Audio-visual performance

Fluct is the collaborative work of Monica Mirabile and Sigrid Lauren addressing issues in the capital obedience of American culture through choreography and performance. FlucT creates original narrative soundscapes linking a manipulated pop music psychosis with violently intimate dance. FlucT has performed at the Queens Museum and MOMA Ps1, with solo exhibition at Platform Gallery. They produce their own large scale choreographed productions [Solar Solipsis,TransValue, ModelHome], collaborate with touring musicians including Pictureplane and MNDR, as well as run Otion Front Studio, a performance/dance space in Bushwick, NY. Fluct’s work has been reviewed by the New York Times, Vice’s Creators Project, Purple Magazine, among others. 

LISA E HARRIS - CHILDREN OF THE LOST
Interactive performance

New opera / composer, performer, filmmaker, singer/ songwriter, writer, educator, community organizer, environmental transformist and Mother Earth advocate, Lisa E Harris is an artist of exceptional breadth and talent. She was the 2015 recipient of acclaimed Valiante Award - given to artists and activists who reflect the organization’s passionate commitment to speaking out and inciting social change through art. (Past recipients include Mel Chin, Ruben Martinez, Bapsi Sidhwa, Patti Smith.) Harris has performed in the 52nd Venice Biennial, Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the 2012 Los Angeles Biennial with collaborator Kenyatta C. Hinkle’s Kentifrica, and the 2012 Whitney Biennial. She is the founder of Studio Enertia, a mixed media production company, with longstanding collaborator Alisha B. Wormsley with sister branches in Pittsburgh and Brooklyn. 

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✦ ABOUT AFRONAUT(A) ✦
http://afronautafilms.tumblr.com/
Pittsburgh-based film and performance series founded by Alisha B. Wormsley. Afronaut(a)'s DVD 3 release “Underground” features different genres, such as narrative, documentary, stop motion, experimental and more, that relate to Afrofuturist explorations of identity and time. 

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✦ ABOUT VIA:
Founded in 2010, VIA is Pittsburgh’s premier audio-visual festival showcasing what’s next in music, art, and technology by artists from home and around the world. VIA is a proud member of the International Cities of Advanced Sound (ICAS) Network with like-minded festivals including Mutek, Unsound, CTM Berlin, and more to further the advancement and appreciation of adventurous music and art. 

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