Remix | Reorganize uses music that, for Houstonian Kira Blazek, has special ties to Texas, and pairs it with a post-post-post modern trend which acknowledges there are little to no original ideas left, and all we can do is become really good at the remix. In addition to the sound score, she remixes and reorganizes the bodies on stage again and again, dancers becoming large moving furniture pieces or backdrops that stare back at you, while solos and duets emerge like those Magic Eye posters from the 90s. She aims for a transparent performance, where experience creates the content. The piece is not about something that isn’t happening in front of you; you should watch it like moss growing or insects flying. What’s happening in the performance is an unfolding of introductions, games of observation, and risky physicality. In a time of heightened multiculturalism and gender neutralization, Blazek takes full liberty to display her own southern identity as a female choreographer, while pushing her dancers to enact something that is demandingly human with naturalistic virtuoso. By emphasizing her aesthetics, Blazek finds that movement reveals an inherent awkwardness, a humor that echoes our culture and vulnerabilities.

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Kira Blazek, originally from Houston, has spent the last eight years accumulating dance flavors. Her career began in Chicago with Hedwig Dances and Hubbard Street 2, and continued in New York City with Douglas Dunn, Christopher Williams, Pilobolus, Susan Marshall, and Shen Wei Dance Arts among others. She is certified to teach Countertechnique - a dance technique developed by Anouk van Dijk (Artistic Director of Chunky Move). She has choreographed music videos in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, and premiered live works in New York City, Sarasota, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Los Angeles, and soon Austin.
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