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American Dance Festival

Chris Yon & Taryn Griggs

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Program: YOGGS FAMILY NEWSLETTER, 2014-present
Co-Presented by the Nasher Museum of Art
Running time: 60 minutes, no intermission
Tickets: FREE!

Chris Yon & Taryn Griggs Website

YOGGS FAMILY NEWSLETTER, 2014-present, is an immersive experience where the audience is led through the lobby of the Nasher Museum of Art by Chris Yon and Taryn Griggs alongside their daughter, Bea Yon. The audience is integrated into the trio as momentary chorus members to our family stories, dances, and drawing games. “Dance, for our family, is a parenthesis for life experience. Periods of our lives that we spent working on choreography coincide with periods of major things happening in our lives and the world.” While the dances look “abstract” or non-narrative, this collection addresses how the trio captures experiences, creates memories, and attaches significance to when and where we dance together and who we meet along the way as part of our family story.

“Yon and Griggs are deadpan comics of rhythmized eccentric gesture — loops of simple steps with rock, paper, scissors on top. Part of the comedy lies in the contrast between his melancholy schlumpiness and her manic Broadway flair. With Bea, clearly the child of that combination, they became something like a family in a Wes Anderson film. As they straight-faced through sketches about customer service holds, cut-up poems and layers of cat T-shirts, the incorporation of the preteen increased the domestic charm.”

Thursday, September 12 at 6:00 pm

Parking is available for free in the Nasher Lot as well as the Campus Drive Lot, located near the intersection of Campus Dr and Anderson St.

Photo credit: Zoe Litaker

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