Mark Jarecke

Everything Up Until Now and Including

Photo: Amanda Ringer

Mark Jarecke

Everything Up Until Now and Including

August 14–15, 2009

Everything Up Until Now and Including, a solo performed by and created in collaboration with dancer Andrea Johnston, is the culmination of years of partnership between choreographer and dancer. This work is a portrait that documents a physical history that brings the body’s past into confrontation with the present. A rigorous and sometimes brutal array of movement and gestures is composed from a record of physical information. While possessing structural limitations, this dance shows the intimacy of a relationship and the intent of a body reaching the threshold of physical impossibility.

“The tone of this work is something entirely unique. Inscrutable if you try to read it in terms of anything other than itself, but quite extraordinary.”

— Karinne Keithley, offoffoff.com