Photo Credit (Above): Eroca Nicols, photographed by Shanti Ganesh
(Below) Christina Zani with performer Scott McPheeters

Friday April 10 at 8pm
new performance works by seers and shakers Eroca Nicols (Toronto) and Christina Zani (Philadelphia)
curated by Meg Foley and The Whole Shebang
at AUX Performance Space
319 N 11th Street, 3rd Floor
$15 – purchase in advance here or cash/check at the door
the show runs 60 minutes

…Truthteller…
Created and performed by Eroca Nicols features: feats of fear facing and concentration, questions and answers, calling on and calling out the past, present and future, conversation, acquatechnics, live lifelong lasting body alteration, sweating, movement and yes, truthtelling.

Eroca Nicols is an international performance art and body nerd. Her alter ego and company, Lady Janitor, combs the globe looking for places to incite radical moments of art chaos, consume massive amounts of coffee, wear amazing unisuts and confer with movers and thinkers of all varieties.Eroca is currently known a dancer/choreographer but her artistic background stems from a family of semi-mystical nomadic trailer people, years working as a janitor, and a BFA in video/performance art and sculpture from California College of the Arts (formerly and Crafts.) Her teaching and training are deeply influenced in her continued study of the Axis Syllabus.

She is super stoked to be all up in the United States this spring as Teaching Artist in Residence at The Whole Shebang in Philly and at The School of Making Thinking in NYC.

Check out her teaching endeavors at Shebang here and in NYC here.

HERSTORY
conceived by Christina Zani
performed and co-created by Zani and Scott McPheeters

1 fictional dance scholar, 1 herbal healer and assistant, 20minutes, 100 years of performance. Multiple costume, wig and persona shifts. Audience involvement. An homage to the radical possibilities that live bodies have offered to audience over the past century. Trigger warnings: nudity, appropriation, possible failure, Marina Abramovic. This is important. This is difficult. This is HERSTORY.

additional choreography:
(subject to change)
Vaslav Nijinksky
Martha Graham
Katherine Dunham
Trisha Brown
Lucinda Childs
Headlong Dance Theater
Miguel Gutierrez

Christina Zani lives, loves, dances and creates in Philadelphia. She has been fortunate to collaborate with so many people over the course of her career, and has been working with and challenged by Meg Foley/Moving Parts since 2008. Lots of people call her Zani . She will cut your hair, too. cflyz@yahoo.com