LAST MINUTE APPLICANT
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Last Minute Applicant is dedicated to presenting innovative work that pushes the boundaries of contemporary and modern dance aesthetic. We seek to challenge dance's current definitions and conventions and work to innovate dance as a form. We currently focus on pushing dance to enable greater accessibility and realize its potential for inclusion of both artists and audience members.
Last Minute Applicant is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Last Minute Applicant must be made payable to Fractured Atlas only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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RECENT WORKS
Here's What We've Been Working On
Praxiteles
This piece explores accessibility in the arts for both audience members and performers and challenges the performing arts to evolve for greater inclusivity. The piece combines text, physical theater, and photography/projections to reframe performance work as a multifaceted discipline for varied bodies. “Praxiteles” premiered at Spark Theatre Festival in March 2023. Excerpts of Praxiteles were performed at I Love Your Vibe at SMUSH Gallery in Jersey City, NJ in February 2023 and Dance Astoria in Astoria, NY in June 2023.
photo by Erica MacLean
Courses
“Courses” explores rehearsal/genesis as part of the performance process and dance's potential to offer great accessibility to people with disabilities. It incorporates multiple expressions and manifestations of the same choreographic phrase. This structure challenges Western concert dance's emphasis on uniformity and suggest that dance can look different at different times or on different bodies.
photo by Peter Yesley @peteryesleyphotography
courtesy of Dixon Place @dixonplace (IG)
@creativeperformances (IG)
DIMENSIONAL
“Dimensional” is an evening length work inspired by depictions of characters’ perception in Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea and by principles of refraction. This quartet requires both physical and verbal interactions among the dancers and often obscures parts of the interactions from the audience, forcing the audience to draw conclusions about the dancers’ relationships. “Dimensional” premiered at The Living Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, in November 2017.
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Previous Performances
2023
30-30-30 at Dixon Place
Dance Astoria
Spark Theatre Festival
I Love your Vibe
2022
ESTIA Day Festival
2021
Queens Performing Arts Festival
2019
The Baumann
Dances at MUCCC Festival
WAXWorks at Triskelion Arts
7 Midnights Performance Research at Arts on Site
2018
Fertile Ground at Green Space
Dances at MUCCC Festival
Jennifer Muller/The Works
2017
Marie-Christine Giordano Artist Salon
The Living Gallery
Dances at MUCCC Festival
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Queens, NY