again, but this time with feeling - group work, 75 min

Is there anything more terrifying in human existence than failure? In her third evening-length work, Durham artist Anna Barker presents a series of dance-theater vignettes exploring the ways in which we experience failure, either by writhing in the discomfort of it or by avoiding it at all costs. Presented as a foil of her recent work Feature Presentation (2016) that examined success and how we curate our own self-image, Again, but this time with feeling exposes the other side of the same coin- the darker, more difficult side. What happens when shooting for the stars doesn’t quite pan out? What happens when we are left with our own, personalized feeling of failure? How do we navigate not only our greatest blunders, but also our routine, everyday missteps?

“If Barker is making an overall statement about where she is as a person and as a dance maker, it might be that the only way to move forward is to use everything, regardless of whether those ideas, feelings, and movements are conventionally thought of as positive or negative… It’s a kind of beauty in sincerity that can withstand a whole parade of douchebags.”- Chris Vitiello

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