Join Moviehouse for the premiere of two new, entertaining live dance & video works that are sure to shake up your perception of things. First, Astoria based trio Seen Performance presents The Party Project, transforming our screening room (and your interactions) into a performance. Then just when you think you’re having fun, the mischievous Meredith Blouin debuts her death-obsessive dance collaboration with filmmaker Pete D'Addeo challenging everything you’ve ever thought about being dead.

Your head might be spinning and you’ll be at a loss for words but the creators will be on hand afterwards to discuss their work!

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Box Shy - Seen Performance / Esther Palmer- choreography, David Morneau, Composer/Performer, Shana McKay Burns, Visual Artist/Designer

Box Shy is a piece from The Party Project, a series of short works that infuse performance into real life social mingling. Through round-robin style collaboration the trio works to develop a concept for a performance, which they typically bring to local house parties or bars and NOW to Moviehouse.

More information http://www.seenperformance.org/

Being Dead / Meredith Blouin (choreography and performance) and Pete D'Addeo (video)

Choreographer Meredith Blouin and Filmmaker Peter D'Addeo premiere Being Dead, a work that questions the ways in which “deadness” is manufactured into an existence. “For Americans,” says historian Arnold Toynbee, “death is un-American.” Obsessions with youth, ceremonial customs, the afterlife and posterity avoid admission of an end. Performed from the perspective of a corpse, transitory physical and spiritual ideals of self animate the tasks and movements of anonymous muddy remains (sorry, no zombies.)

More information www.myspace.com/madamespaghettiarms