Lexicon
An Evening of Dance Works by Barbie Diewald and Collaborators
Friday, May 16, 6:00pm
Cost: $15-$30 sliding scale,* ticket link coming soon!
Lexicon is an evening of developing and revisited dance works by choreographer Barbie Diewald and her collaborators. The program opens with Seven Sundays, a solo Diewald originally choreographed and performed in 2014, now performed by Mount Holyoke College student Robyn Pilecki. Next, Diewald joins longtime collaborator Meredith Bove in an untitled duet exploring intimacy, distance, voice, and familial histories. The evening culminates in a preview of Lexicon, an ongoing work begun in 2023. A companion to Diewald’s archival research on queer and lesbian aesthetics, Lexicon reflects a deeply collaborative process with Massachusetts and New York based artists Julia Antinozzi, Gabby Carmichael, Ellie Goudie-Averill, Leah Fournier, Chloe London, and Jenna Riegel.
Originally from the midwest, Barbie Diewald is a dancer, choreographer and Assistant Professor of Dance at Mount Holyoke College. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Choreography and New England Foundation for the Arts New Work New England Grant Recipient. Her dances have been presented in New York at BAM, the 92nd Street Y, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, University Settlement, The Center for Performance Research, The Chocolate Factory, and The Kitchen, and in New England at the Academy of Music Theatre, A.P.E Gallery, The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, High Street Studios, Motion State Arts Festival, and MAGMA (Movement Arts Gloucester). Diewald has developed her work through residencies at Jacob’s Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, the Bogliasco Foundation, The Iron Factory, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Cleveland School for the Arts, Ponderosa, Subcircle and SILO at Kirkland Farm. She is a recent Jacob’s Pillow faculty research fellow, and has presented her research at conferences held by the Dance Studies Association, National Dance Education Organization, and International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. Diewald holds a BFA in Theatre from Millikin University and MFA in Dance from Smith College.www.barbiediewald.com