How Dogs Play explores the complex presence of aggression within intimacy — a crude slip between the human and the monstrous, child’s play and menacing acts. Three performers, Amelia Heintzelman, Brendan Elefante, and Jack Dexter collide, spin, fall, and intertwine in an athletic maze. Sounds are amplified and live processed, exaggerating the tussles of everyday life, tendered in a soundscape by Tommy Martinez.
Amelia Heintzelman choreographer and performer
Brendan Elefante performer
Jack Dexter performer
Tommy Martinez sound artist
Tess Michaelson dramaturg
“The sheer viscerality of her presence, which seems to have mounted from her very depths, is commanding.” – Tess Michaelson, Brooklyn Rail
“Her reverence for form and spectacle is felt in the deeply moving strokes of her physicality. Instead of making meaning, she finds it in the corners that the edges of her movement create.” – Sophia Parker, Culturebot
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.
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Amelia Heintzelman is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Her work has been supported by residencies, commissions, and grants through Center for Performance Research, Draftwork at Danspace Project, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Issue Project Room, Movement Research at the Judson Church, New York Foundation for the Arts, Pageant, Snug Harbor, and UCross Foundation. Most recently, she’s worked as a collaborating performer for Kim Brandt, Jesi Cook, Ayano Elson, Deborah Hay, Melinda Ring and Alexa West. She is on teaching faculty at Movement Research and Pageant, and rarely/sometimes teaches Comedy Pilates.
