JEAN&TERRY: YGTDLN PRESS KIT

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JEAN & TERRY

JEAN &

Your Guides Through Da We are perceivers. We are an awareness; we are not objects; we have no solidity.

We are boundless. The world of objects and solidity is a way of making our passage on earth convenient. —Don Juan Matus in Carlos Castaneda’s Tales of Power

& TERRY

ark, Light, and Nebulous When the mundanity of everyday life crashes into psychic phenomena, it helps to have a guide.

Jean & Terry are a housewife and her spirit guide. They are alter egos for a neurotic choreographer and her zen-ed out collaborator, a pair of mountains, and a team of gods who smile from above. They are me and they are you.

In their experimental play and self-described form of psychic activism, choreographers and performing artists Mel Krodman and Kelly Bond peer with a curious and open third eye into ideas of the Universal Consciousness. The performers stage their attempts at seeking one-ness, achieving telepathy, elevating our collective vibrational frequencies, and acknowledging the impossibility of it all. Set against a journey across the astral plane, Jean & Terry asks us to consider what we are made of and what, if anything, separates us.

Featuring performer-creators Mark McCloughan and Jaime Maseda, along with Ilan Bachrach’s video design and music composition by Greg Svitil and Chris Sannino.

PhotoS by Plate3 & film stills by Ilan Bachrach

New Orleans-based chor and Philadelphia-based Krodman have been m dance works together s Kelly and Mel have crea Colony (2012) and JEAN Through Dark, Light, a They were 2015 visiting Penny's Work Room in A dent artists of thefidget PA; and 2014 artists in re artists of the Breaking G The Lucky Penny/Theat Their work emphasizes original form above genr often investigates a ph “choreography of the spe

Kelly is a choreographer, dancer, and yogini who continuously witnesses and embodies the evolution of those roles as both a teacher and a mother. She holds an MA in European dance-theatre practice from Laban which she attended as a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholar. She also holds a BFA in dance performance and choreography and a BA in English from the University of Southern Mississippi. Kelly was a 2014-15 Artist Fellow with the Tennessee Arts Commission; an artist with Dance/Metro DC’s 2010 pilot program, Forward Five; a 2009 Young Emerging Artist of the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities; and an artist with ex.e.r.ce08 at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier.

She has served as an adjunct professor of dance at The George Washington University and University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and currently teaches yoga and fitness for adults, as well as creative performance for K-5 students in New Orleans.

Film still by Ilan Bachrach

reographer Kelly Bond theatre maker Mel making experimental since 2010. Together, ated Elephant (2010), & TERRY: Your Guides and Nebulous (2016). g artists at The Lucky Atlanta; 2014-15 resispace in Philadelphia, esidence and teaching Ground Series through tre Emory in Atlanta. experimentation and re categorization, and hysical and energetic ectator.”

Mel creates and performs theatre. She is a company member of Pig Iron Theatre Company: Those With Two Clocks (2018), Period of Animate Existence (2017), Gentlemen Volunteers (2015/16), Swamp is On with Dr. Dog (2015), and works frequently with other ensembles and artists including Team Sunshine Performance Corporation’s The Sincerity Project (2014-2038) and No Face Performance Group’s The Top (2016). Her character-based video series, co-directed with Erin Markey, will be released in 2018 on Instagram. Mel is a 2016 Theatre Communications Group Global Connections grant recipient for her work with Slovenian director Nina Lampic and dramaturg Urska Brodar (A Potential Performance, 2016), and is a 2017 Independence Foundation Fellow in the Performing Arts. She holds a B.S. in Film and Television Production from Boston University and a Graduate Certificate in Ensemble Devising from the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training’s inaugural class of 2013.

It’s an upbeat-mysticpop-sensation…

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—thINKingDANCE

“... a multi-layered trip into the idea of Universal Consciousness. Through dark humor, mirrored clouds, floating heads, and new-age-dancing-gurus, the style of the show invokes a mid-century era punctuated with an 80’s music video flare. It interlaces monologue with lecture, artful live video feed, and fresh music composition to offer a dream-like vision quest that doesn’t let the audience merely spectate. “ —thINKingDANCE

“...they generate happiness through their relentless positive energy.”

—The Dance Journal

“In the face of darkness that we might experience in our ordinary lives, this show offers a sparkling venture beyond the concrete … and, hands over some tools to take along for the journey.”

—thINKingDANCE

“...are these psychedelic antics a joke or for real? Perhaps this pleasant state of confusion is necessary to take a chance – loose enough to laugh at the absurdity, but curious enough to give it a try.”

—The Dance Journal

See the JEAN & TERRY trailer here.

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See the full JEAN & TERRY premiere here.

More info available at www.kellyandmel.com or kellyandmelmail@gmail.com *Technical rider available upon request.

Credits Created & performed by Kelly Bond & Mel Krodman With co-creators & performers Mark McCloughan & Jaime Maseda Video design by Ilan Bachrach Original score by Greg Svitil & Chris Sannino Sound design by Chris Sannino Lighting design by Maria Shaplin Costume Design Kelly Bond & Mel Krodman