Bamberger Dance Projects •

Bamberger Dance Projects •

More About the artist
More About the artist

Creating • on • and on • and on •

Creating • on • and on • and on •

  • (un)Cautioned. Curated chaos in performance. Manipulate worlds. Spatial design patterns through avant-garde aesthetics. Multifaceted components of conceptualised and perceptual muchness do the bidding. Blur lines between performance art and dance. Manifest a(the) surreal avenue to be taken. Make room. Render nothing as obsolete. Take voyeuristic prisoners. Create as the informant. Ingest onlookers. Reap what you sweat. Challenge form. Blurt uncontrollably. Be wicked. Do the other thing.

Shot by Maria Polodeanu 

Photo © Allan Thiebault – Steven Cohen Company.

Photo © Allan Thiebault – Steven Cohen Company.

Photo © Allan Thiebault – Steven Cohen Company.

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This work is an exploration of darkness, beauty, pain, and physicality, which strives to blur the lines between reality and the surreal. Compiled over the course of 2 months out on a farm in Virginia, the work is a choreographic outlet used to expand upon inner turmoil and strife.

Photo © Allan Thiebault – Steven Cohen Company.

FLYTARP, 2019.

An erotic amalgamation of experimental choreography, heels, glamor, and sensuality. www.hankbamberger.com
Bamberger Dance Projects: manipuLATEd.memBRAIN - was created by Hank Bamberger for Bamberger Dance Projects and commissioned by the Jamaica Center of Arts and Learning (JCAL) for their 10th annual Making Moves Dance Festival, as part of their Emerging Choreographers production. This work curates an interplay amongst camp, queer aesthetics, absurdity, situational irony, modern and deconstructed jazz dance phraseologies.

 SAILDANCE • Student company • collaboration •

 SAILDANCE • Student company • collaboration •

  • As the interim ballet specialist and composition teacher at the Appomattox Regional Governor’s School (a magnet performing arts high school in Petersburg, VA) for 2020/2021, bamberger ran the Dance Department’s Company. this group was rebranded as SAILDANCE, a young group of aspiring artists and incredible pre-professional dancers. These performers were all in grade 9.

  • Due to the pandemic, the group rehearsed via Zoom and created an hour-long immersive installation dance series that fluctuated in its iterative practice over three months. What culminated was nothing short of miraculous.

  • The dancers were asked to perform at the Firehouse Theatre, a downtown experimental performance space in Richmond, VA. It was pure magic. Please enjoy this hopeful sequence of performances based on resilience and the powerful human condition.

How is it that we adapt during times of crisis? And trauma? •

How is it that we adapt during times of crisis? And trauma? •

Open Rehearsal

Opening Night

Show #2

Show #3

Show #4

KVEEN.Wind.bender is a two month long work in progress utilizing a 20x30ft tarp. I wanted to play with the texture of the material and manipulate the object itself, as well as, the time structure of the tarp's movement with technology. The outcome is surreal, beautiful, and haunting - three of my favorite elements in dance...and in life.
Ideas surrounding erotica, claustrophobia, and intimacy are explored in this darkly personal concept video. Music: Lana Del Rey - "Freak"
A concept video by Hank Bamberger - FLYTARP is the newest choreographic work that investigates the body and its relationship to fluidity, external motion, and involvement of choreographic objects. Plastics interplay with flesh as sustainable vs. unsustainable and landscapes walk a fine line of industrial vs. ecological.

UNDERSTANDING ABSTRACT PROCESS(ES) •

UNDERSTANDING ABSTRACT PROCESS(ES) •

  • The authentically rich, choreographic process is always in motion. I have made it my goal and responsibility to be consistently immersed and enthralled in physical creativity.

  • When ideas and physicality synergize, I strike the choreographic iron while it’s hot. I come from an American modern dance background, preluded by years of ballet, jazz, modern, and contemporary dance. I seek honesty in visceral performance art practices that uphold identity… in all its confluence and integrity.

  • Through Bamberger Dance Projects, I am fulfilling my dream as an artist and choreographer—constantly in a state of movement exploration and conceptual excavation.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

WHAT MORE? • Want more. •

WHAT MORE? • Want more. •

  • I work as a freelance choreographer, marrying the worlds of postmodern, modern, contemporary, and experimental dance forms with performance art. I work globally, extending myself to where the work is needed. Please get in touch with me for upcoming projects, interests, and collaborations.

  • I specialise in solo performances/choreographies, ensemble works, and choreographic partnerships with others. Further, I specialise in teaching and delivering master classes/workshops to groups of all sizes, ages, and demographics—students and professionals alike.

  • Making visually arresting and evocatively compelling work is my deepest passion. Create with me. I look forward to working with you.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The excesses of lived experience are reevaluated along non-normative foundations. Going crazy can be wondrous in the complexities of hilarity and desperation.

 

LOVELINESS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>prevails.