Off Off Broadway Listing: Jillian Peña's 'Jodi for Jill, Jill for Jodi' & 'Polly Pocket'

Be it Max Steele's newest solo piece, or Nia Love and Marjani Fortè's latest collaboration, Classicalite's been quick to champion pretty much everything that Brooklyn Arts Exchange has put on.

Once again, this weekend at BAX proves no exception.

Jillian Peña is a dance and video artist primarily concerned with confusion and desire between self and other. Her work is in dialogue with psychoanalysis, queer theory, pop media and spirituality. She has been presented internationally, including at The Chocolate Factory, Dance Theater Workshop and The Kitchen in New York; Akademie der Kunste Berlin, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow and the International Festival of Contemporary Art Slovenia. Jillian was a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholar during which she was awarded an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was a fellowship recipient, and a practice-based MPhil in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She was a 2009 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, a 2009 DanceWeb Fellow at Impulstanz in Vienna, a 2010 Artist-in-Residence at Archauz in Århus, Denmark and a 2011 Artist-in-Residence at the National Dance Center of Bucharest, Romania.

Quoth The Grey Lady in this week's Dance Listings:

"Identities are swapped and entangled in two new works by Peña, which conclude Ms. Peña's creative residency at Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Jodi for Jill, Jill for Jodi is a video created with the sublime dancer Jodi Melnick, while Polly Pocket, billed as 'a coming of age story,' follows Alexandra Albrecht and Andrew Champlin as they figure out who they are in relation to each other."

May 10th-12th, 2013
Friday-Saturday @ 8:00pm | Sunday @ 6:00pm

Tickets: $15 General | $8 Low-Income | [Buy Tickets]

Featuring BAX's Artists-In-Residence (AIR), this performance culminates a shared journey through the creative process. Audience members enjoy the rare opportunity to follow a work and engage its creators from the early stages through to full productions. This journey began with the Open Studio Series in November, continued with the Works in Progress Series in January, and culminates in these Spring performances.