Michelle Ellsworth / Jillian Peña
TIFPRABAP.ORG / MOTHERSHIP
With an expansive definition of dance, an ability to misread situations and a fast mouth, Michelle Ellsworth has created The Institute For Potential Religious Artifacts Beliefs and Procedures (TIFPRABAP.ORG), a cult of one, committed to serving the religious needs of the individual and the world. As with past work, Michelle’s TIFPRABAP.ORG mixes performance, sculpture, websites, cartoons, video installations, spread sheets, and dance.
Video-based artist Jillian Peña's newest work, MOTHERSHIP, is a virtual meta-dance which creates movement through intimate interaction with its viewers. Set in an imaginary landscape of pop spirituality, the piece pulls the audience between hope and failure, devotion and cynicism, group experience and alienation.
- TIFPRABAP.ORG and MOTHERSHIP are commissioned by the Bessie Schönberg/First Light Commissioning and Creative Residency Program of Dance Theater Workshop with support from the Jerome Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation. TIFPRABAP.ORG is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project.