Jesse Obremski

Happiness

by Jonsí and Alex

Jesse Obremski

Jesse Obremski and Artists

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Original Cast: Terrence D.M Diable, Mariah Gravelin, Mio Ishikawa, Anna Lopez, Tyler Rivera, Frances Samson, Christopher Taylor, Lauren Twomley,

World premiere at DUMBO Dance Festival (October 2019) and later performed at Diversity of Dance’s Dancing Beyond 2020 (January 2020).

8 minutes

Inspired by multiple conversations within The Limón Dance Company on how we can dance together in unison without being exactly identical and a rehearsal for Opportunity at Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) in 2018, CORE, touches base on the notion of what “unison” means to us. While rehearsing Opportunity, Obremski rehearsed the double casted quintet, side by side, and found that the physical unison stories with slight differences in intention, timing, focus, and individual physicality can explore our unique differences and universal connective tissue at the same time. While in process, Obremski took the individuality of the Obremski/Works’s artists and embedded them into the work while sharing a physical structure to guide the two quartets, which are split by center to stage right and stage left. This allows Core to explore and dive deep into what "the words “same”, “identity”, and “unison” could mean for our culture with this physical and emotional representation and also can share how we can see things differently though we can be in “unison” in our core.