mouthfull. is a two-part live performance and film, dance event produced by of bones || hollye bynum. This production, taking place at Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, NY, provides a platform for emerging choreographers and dance filmmakers to present innovative and boundary-pushing works to the community. In its fifth year, mouthfull. boasts two different shows, each with a select and distinct collection of works curated by artistic director, Hollye Bynum. In addition to presentation of these works, the evenings will include an interactive lobby installation by Cesar Brodermann Photography, concessions provided by Sweet Chick, and concludes with an after party.

*A portion of the event’s proceeds will go to relief efforts ​in Puerto Rico.

mouthfull. 2017 Lineup

Live Performance by Alice Halter, Andrea Ward, Catie Leasca, Cesar Brodermann, Depth Dance, Heather Chappell, Lillian Joergensen and Ashley Yehoda, Metaphor and Similes Dance, NOW Dance Project, Sarah Richman, Sophie Tibiletti, and of bones || hollye bynum

Films by Andrea Ward, Jazlyn Moore, Jenna Maslechko, Jessica Hale and Sam Trombly, Kayla Farrish, Loren Picciarelli, and Nicola Hepp

Mouthfull was presented on October 20 and 21 at the Center for Performance Research. It was an evening of dance performances and video productions curated by Of Bones||Hollye Bynum. Mouthfull was rightfully named — the lineup was certainly saying a lot. There appeared to be universal emotionality overcasting the evening, but each performance had a unique take on the shared human experience of self-identity, isolation, love, and what remains after devastation. Guests were invited into an immersive experience pre-show. Cesar Brodermann, a NYC-based photographer, choreographer, and dancer, designed the venue’s lobby into a world of photos expressing raw emotionality and physicality. The walls of CPR were adorned with images of nearly (some entirely) nude males. Men were transposed in front of pastel backdrops and contorted to fit within the crevices of other men in an exploration of the body. However, the photos conceptualized more than physiological studies of how bodies can reshape into new, imagined beings; more so, it encompassed a sense of vulnerability required to allow another into those places hidden from the eye. There were also underlying considerations of male masculinity …Read more