marion spencer & Glenn Potter-Takata
Sunday, May 3, 2026
169 Bowery NYC
DOORS 6:30 pm | SHOW 7:00pm
marion spencer & collaborators will present an excerpt from h o r i z o n , an interdisciplinary ensemble dance project that calls upon movement, sound, light and materials to investigate the ensemble as an organism of futurity.
Studying mycorrhizal networks – the roots of fungi that connect tree roots to each other underground, creating a network that shares resources between forest ecosystems – we ask: in a time of extinction, what can we learn from these ancient, non-human teachers that center collectivity, cooperation and curiosity?
Performed by Stacy Lynn Smith, Shannon Yu, Vicky Shick, EmmaGrace Skove-Epes, with Mor Mendel and Nora Alami in spirit. Sound design by Shamar Watt.
Glenn Potter-Takata’s latest work investigates the material conditions of postindustrial life through the lens of Buddhist phenomenology. Examining a relationship between our perceived reality and the materials that populate it, a junk drawer of the mind is full of old iPhones with countless iterations of our guardian Bodhisattva left on read.
Performed by Akane Little, Shamar Watt, evan ray suzuki, and Glenn Potter-Takata
About the Artists
marion spencer is a New York-based interdisciplinary dance artist. Weaving movement, sound & installation, she creates solo and ensemble performances built from feminine, feminist and interdisciplinary practices. marion’s work has been presented by La MaMa, Roulette, CPR, Danspace Project, Gibney, New Dance Alliance, Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, and more. She has been an Artist in Residence at MacDowell, The American Dance Festival, The Chocolate Factory Theater, The Field Center, Gibney, Amherst College and Mana Contemporary, among others. As a performer, marion has danced for Joanna Kotze, Laurie Berg, BAND|portier, Laura Peterson, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Michelle Boulé, Tyler Rai and as a guest performer with David Dorfman Dance and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.
Glenn Potter-Takata is a Japanese-American artist, media designer, and educator based in the Bronx. He creates performance works that incorporate butoh, media equipment, and consumer materials to treat the body as a historical site in post-Internment America. His original performance works have been shown at Danspace Project, Mabou Mines, Pageant, Kestrels, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research at Judson Church, Grace Exhibition Space, Cannonball (Philadelphia, PA) and Rogers Studio Gallery (Las Vegas, NV), among other places. Glenn has been an artist-in-residence with Movement Research, Gibney Dance Center (Work Up), CUNY Dance Initiative at Lehman College, Ucross (Clearmont, WY), Rogers Art Loft (Las Vegas, NV), and is the recipient of a MAP Fund Award, Bronx Cultural Visions Award, Bronx Dance Fund Award, and a Mabou Mines SUITE/Space Fellowship. He is currently a teacher of sound and projection design for live performance at Sarah Lawrence College. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College.
photos by Whitney Browne photography
