DIRECTOR’S CHOICE SHOWCASE: Aidan Feldman and Friends Sept.29 & 30 @ 8pm

Spoke the Hub is pleased to present DIRECTOR’S CHOICE Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer, and technologist Aidan Feldman and friends (Alex Bisker,  Andrew Hadro, Tamar Nachmany and NewBrese Dance Project)  as STH’s first production of the 2023/24 Season.

Feldman was selected by STH’s Artistic Director, Elise Long, at STH’s annual WINTER FOLLIES ‘23 showcase last February as one of four outstanding artists that Long felt merited more stage time and public exposure of their work.

“Six Feet Between Us” is a multi-disciplinary performance featuring new dance, writing, and music, directed by Feldman.  The show premieres at Spoke the Hub’s newly re-christened, intimate and accessible, WHEELHOUSE THEATRE in the Spoke the Hub Re:Creation Center, Park Slope, Brooklyn.

The show is a reflection on relationships through and since the heights of the pandemic: the focus and strain it put on them, the ways it built them up and damaged them, the appreciation and frustration within them. While some were put in a pressure cooker by being together 24/7, others were forced to remain at a distance of six feet or hundreds of miles.

Just as our relationships to each other were changed by the pandemic, so too did our relationship with technology. Two of the works bring forward this relationship to and through our devices, using machines to provide automated accompaniment.

The show brings together dancers, writers, and musicians for a diverse evening of performances, filled with themes of isolation and loneliness, but also playfulness and intimacy.

Aidan Feldman is a technologist by day, dancer by night. He is currently a member of Artichoke Dance, danceTactics Performance Group, and Dance Entropy, and has previously worked with Chavasse Dance & Performance, and the Barkin/Selissen Project. Outside of dance, Aidan teaches data analysis and coding at Columbia University and New York University, and helps government agencies do technology better. When not dancing or nerding, Aidan can be found glaring at cars from his bicycle.