A Complex System
Central Standard interview by BRIAN ELLISON & MATTHEW LONG-MIDDLETON
Jane Gotch on the air with Molly Kaderka discussing what it means to live in a body, human movement and her choreographic process.
Listen HERE!
KCUR interview with Jane Gotch, September 22, 2015
World Of Hurt
By GINA KAUFMANN, MATTHEW LONG-MIDDLETON & SYLVIA MARIA GROSS • SEP 22, 2015
Pain. It's not the most uplifting topic, in fact it hurts, but it's universal... and throughout time, philosophers have found value in it. Our meditation on pain starts with a dance.
Guests:
Jane Gotch, dancer, choreographer and Gyrotonic trainer
Dr. Lynn Webster, leading pain researcher and author, The Painful Truth
Dr. Sarah Robins, assistant professor, University of Kansas Department of Philosophy
Listen to the interview HERE.
Kansas City Star review of Let it Fall
Libby Hansen's review of Let it Fall, August 24, 2015
LET IT FALL Kansas City Release
LET IT FALL releases with new dance works by Jane Gotch and Kameron N. Saunders with performances by Mark Southerland, Shawn Hansen, Mikal Shapiro, or Jeff Harshbarger.
PERFORMANCES: August 21, 22, 28, and 29 at 8pm
Pre Performance Dinner: Saturday, August 22 and 29 at 6pm
Performance only $15
Dinner and performance $65
Seating is limited
Tickets available for advanced purchase at
www.brownpapertickets.com
or call 1.800.838.3006
All performances at St. Marks Hope and Peace Lutheran Church
3800 Troost St. Kansas CIty MO 64109
Photo by Tammy Shell
LET IT FALL Performance at Roulette in Brooklyn
Jane and dancers returned to NYC February 13th, 2015 for a performance at Roulette in Brooklyn, NY as part of their annual festival [DANCEROULETTE] curated by Jennifer Lafferty.
LET IT FALL at Movement Research at Judson Church, NYC
January 26th, 2015
Jane Gotch was one of 38 artists selected from over 300 national and international applicants to present at the 2014-15 Movement Research at Judson Church season.
Dancers: Leo Gayden and Juliet Remmers
2014 Charlotte Street Generative Artist Award Fellow
I am thrilled and honored to announce I am a 2014 Charlotte Street Generative Artist Award Fellow, along with my friend Hermon Mehari.
This year’s panel included Jane Beachy, independent performance producer and curator/director, Salonathon, Chicago; David Ford, multi-disciplinary artist, Kansas City, MO; Kip Haaheim, composer, musician, and Associate Professor of Music Composition, University of Kansas; Nicole Hodges Persley, theatre artist and Assistant Professor of Theatre, University of Kansas; and Emily Johnson, choreographer & director, Catalyst, MN.
Read the full CSF press release.
LET IT FALL Presented February 8th, 2014
Through abstracted body lines, break dance styling, and operatic song, “Let it fall” imparts a corporeal tale of two people’s relationship with pain. We swallow it, throw it, allow it, and find our beauty within it. The work unifies the artists’ diverse personal histories, into a lush, sensorial saunter down the fine line between suffering and pleasure. Performed by Leo Gayden and Juliet Remmers.
Presented as part of City in Motions 11th annual A Modern Night at the Folly.
Read an interview by KC METROPOLIS about this project and my work.
*Photo credit, Mike Strong
Innovation of the Arts Awards Winner 2011
The Missouri Entrepreneur Celebration and the Small Business and Technology Development Center at the University of Missouri and Kansas City .
Watch a video about the WE! project, visit STBDCS website.
WE! Radio interview with KCUR, April 2011
Jane Gotch and Mark Southerland talk with Laura Spencer- Listen.
Kansas City Star Review of WE! by Timothy Finn
WE! awarded Rocket Grant from Andy Warhol Foundation
New multi-disciplinary performance installation project by Jane Gotch and Mark Southerland
Septemer 2010
WE! is awarded a Rocket Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation in partnership with The Charlotte Street Foundation and The Spencer Museum.
The project is directed and produced by Jane Gotch and Mark Southerland, and performed in collaboration with Brie Blakeman, Brad Cox, Kalen Compernolle, Jason Dixon, Shay Estes, Tuesday Faust, Abbe Findley, Laura Frank, Helen Gillet, Shawn Hansen, Hadley Johnson, Ke-Sook Lee, Chad Meise, Miles Neidinger, Paul Rudy, Matt Tady, and MIca Thomas.
David Ollington Review of And We Hold Tight Together
“Cellist Justin Cowart accompanied “and we hold tight together,” a trio by Jane Gotch. Gotch intuitively created a piece with nuance and subtle changes in energy. It hypnotized us with dynamic yet simple relationships between the dancers and a powerful cellist.”