Join JJDC at its Gala, filled with live performances, art installations, silent auction, and cocktails to celebrate the 2016 Season and beyond.
JJDC will premiere its new work, The Temple, Burn it Down, featuring Sculptures by Amy Korb, Costume and body paint design by Coleen Scott, and Music by Frank Malloy IV. Please join us for an evening of drinks, live music, visual art, and dance.
The Temple, Burn it Down plays with the subtle contradiction of the body as an honored temple of art while also serving as a debilitating instrument that a dancer assiduously manipulates during his or her career. In the dance field, the body is elevated as a valued vessel of expression and yet is destroyed during the creation of the art. In order to reach the higher stratosphere where diligence meets art, the body is consistently broken down through acts such as rigorous practices or a feverish lifestyle of instability. The work questions what we are truly gaining from daily dogmatic training.