Save the Date!!! Heidi Latsky: On Display

On Display Austin:  A Movement Installation by Heidi Latsky

Body Shift is excited to announce that we will be hosting Heidi Latsky, artistic director of NYC based Heidi Latsky Dance and company member Jerron Herman here in Austin to set Heidi’s internationally renowned work On Display on a group of our local dancers, actors, activists and anyone else interested in taking part in this global initiative – the more diverse the better!  Mark your calendar for the following dates and times – more details to come in the November newsletter:

– Monday, November 14 – On Display:  Call to Action, 6:30-9pm, Location: UT Austin, Winship Building, room 1.172
– Tuesday, November 15 – Brown Bag Lunch and Discussion with Heidi and Jerron, 1-2:30pm, Location:  Northwest Recreation Center;  On Display:  Call to Action, 6:30-9pm, Location:  TBA
– Wednesday, November 16 – On Display Site Specific Performance, 6:30-8pm, Location:  Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge
– Thursday, November 17 – On Display Debrief and Performance Technique Workshop, 6:30-9pm, Location:  TBA
– Saturday, December 3 – On Display Site Specific Performance, 12-1:30pm/2-3:30pm, Location:  Blanton Museum

In order to take part in the site specific performance you must attend one or both nights of the Call to Action.

About On Display:

We’ve always been taught not to stare; not to look at someone deeply because it might offend them; that if someone “different” catches our eye we have objectified them. This is the life of the viewer.  Alternatively, should we possess a birthmark, a glorious height, or unknown disability we risk being too noticeable and often ostracized or worse. This is the life of the viewed.

In both lives there is a harsh limitation where one does not have the time to see beyond mere characteristics and the other cannot be seen as anything but other.  How can we possibly create a safer space for both to really look?

On Display Austin is the local platform of an annual worldwide initiative On Display Global that evolved out of Heidi Latsky Dance’s partnership with the NYC Mayor’s Office and the UN in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  It is a sculpture court where the performers are the sculptures.

On Display at the UN