TRYHARD
TRYHARD is an evening-length work by Ariel Lembeck. It is a dance drenched in sound and light. Through the use of objects it collages the body into images and creates space for obsession to shine through. It is a practice in exposing a forbidden sense of self and allowing it to grow inside the room. It is about becoming and letting go and the endless search for who we are and what we want to be.
Choreographed and Performed by: Ariel Lembeck
Sound Design by: Angel Zinovieff
Lighting Design by: Cameron Barnett
Costume by: Alec Speedie with alterations by: Lora Lukatskaya
Venue: Kestrels
October 18-20, 2024
Photography by Maria Baranova
LED FROM THE YARD
This work explores the push and pull of self-reflection. Examining the obsessive and narcissistic tendencies that arrive from seeking others’ approval — revealing what possible self-acceptance looks like. Through the interrogation of materials, the work plays with indulging in both image and perception to reach a point of deeper awareness. In this quest for understanding, repetition, duration, and shape are used to exhaust the exposed state into a self-affirming one. After interrogating being seen and unseen, the work asks us this— when we separate from the inquiry of self, what remains to define us?
created and performed by: Ariel Lembeck
conception sharing at Footlight Bar
Performance at The Floor on Atlantic (artist in residence)
Performance at The Wild Project (Human Rights International Arts Festival)
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I love the distance between us. What's shiny to you is only seen to me in the details. Do they dissolve when you look closely at them?
created and performed by: Lea Fulton + Ariel Lembeck
music by: Greg King
venue: Never Before Never Again, Improv Festival
January 2018 - Triskelion Arts Brooklyn, NY
ERGON NOMOI
In this work I investigate the kinesthetic, environmental and psychological aspects of “doing work”. At the heart of my research is the “work triangle”, a design configuration that maximizes efficiency in a working environment. This piece, both in process and performance, embodies a rigorous approach to completing tasks and redefining space in relation to “doing work”. The improvisational scores within the piece create space for the unknown and in-turn celebrates the uncontrolled variables that arrive from making choices in real time, so the work moves forward in unexpected ways.
created and performed by: Ariel Lembeck
sound: Excerpt from Barb Purdy's Seminar - "Don't Be Forced Out ", Rondo Veneziano - " La Serenissima"
venues performed: STUFFED at Judson Church, NY, NY | Swell 2 @ The Jack Crystal Theater NY, NY | Wax Works, Triskelion Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY | Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, Ruth Page Center for the Performing Arts, Chicago, IL
photos by: Eric Bandiero and Andrew Wibner