Step into a world of curiosity and contradiction with Beautiful Little Weirdos, an evening of bold, evocative movement by Amber Sloan that celebrates the strange, the surreal, and the deeply personal. The program features the premiere of two works: After the Applause and Echoes of Absurdity.
After the Applause, a captivating solo by Amber Sloan embraces humor, vulnerability, and the unpredictability of an ever-shifting reality. Echoes of Absurdity, a quartet performed by Shawn Brush, Ching-I Chang, Chelsea Enjer Hecht, and Jordan Morley, with sound design by John Glover and costumes by Meagan Woods, navigates the tension between order and disruption, humor and unease.
Through intricate choreography and raw physicality, these works examine the absurdity of existence, the beauty in the unconventional, and the voices that refuse to conform. Join us at Kestrels for a night of compelling performances that challenge perception and invite you to embrace the weird.
Amber Sloan is a choreographer, performer, teacher, producer, and curator based in Jersey City and New York City. Her work has been presented by Dixon Place, Roulette Theater, Soaking WET at the West End Theatre, Danspace Project, (DraftWorks and Food for Thought), Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Green Space, Arts On Site, South Orange Performing Arts Center, Smush Gallery, Dance Safari, the EstroGenius Festival, WestFest Dance Festival, Spoke the Hub, 92Y's Fridays at Noon, as well as a 20-year commissioning relationship with the DanceNow Festival. She is a recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Choreography Fellowship, Monira Foundation's Performance Residency at Mana Contemporary, an Artist in Residence at Union Street Dance, Dance on the Lawn's Emerging New Jersey Commissioned Choreographer, a Schonberg Fellowship at The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard, and funding from the Jerome Robbins Foundation and Dance New Jersey's Regrant Program.
As a performer, Amber is a member of The Bang Group and has danced in works by Doug Elkins, Keely Garfield, Sara Hook, Stephan Koplowitz, and James Waring. She serves on the faculty of the Ailey School as the dance composition teacher for the Professional Division certificate program. As an advocate for the community and fellow artists, she co-directs Women in Motion NYC, serves on the advisory board of Art Omi: Dance, and is the Assistant Executive Director of Arts On Site. She holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she was honored with the Beverly Blossom/Carey Erickson Alumni Dance Award.
www.ambersloan.com
Photo credit: Rebecca Marcela Oviatt; Dancers in photo: Daniel Morimoto, Chelsea Enjer Hecht, and Jordan Morley
