Megatron Man
Megatron Man
ChoreographY
Bryon Carr and dancers
Performers
Simon McCrea Adler, Kince de Vera, and Michael Walton
MUSIC
Megatron Man - Patrick Cowley
costumes and projections
Bryon Carr
Bryon Carr (he/him) holds an MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts from Brooklyn College, NYC. he has trained, taught and performed throughout the U.S. and Europe. In NYC he danced for The Martha Graham Ensemble, Chen and Dancers, The Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Popo and Gogo Boys and Pele Bauch Performance Group. Carr formed his own dance company and has shown work all over NYC as well as, Seattle, Boston, and Berlin. In Seattle he has choreographed for the Full Tilt Festival, Strictly Seattle, Men in Dance, Take Pause, The Boost Festival and Converge Dance Festival. He also created an interactive dance/video performance for the Take 5 Festival in St. Croix. Carr has taught at Velocity, Bellevue College and eXit Space teaching modern and ballet.
PROGRAM NOTES
This new dance/media work is a personal homage to one of the early pioneers of electronic dance music, Patrick Cowley; a genius composer whose life was cut short by the AIDS epidemic of the 1980’s. I am a huge fan of electronic music and science fiction, so when I first heard Cowley’s iconic dance track; Megatron Man, released in 1981, I felt an immediate connection to his music. Cowley’s compositions have been a significant influence on some of my favorite bands from the 80’s and 90’s such as The Pet Shop Boys and New Order, both of which have stated that Cowley was a big inspiration for creating their own sound. I decided to play with a retro science-fiction/campy aesthetic to align with the era in which Cowley’s song was created and to celebrate his contribution to the disco-era and nightclub scene. This piece was a team effort, my dancers really dedicated their time, talent, and energy into helping create this work. A HUGE thank you to my super-hero dancers! Kince de Vera, Simon McCrea Adler and Michael Walton!
Feel free to whoop and yeah during our performance!
Performers
Simon Adler (he/they), born in 2002, started his dance training at three years old in Colorado. In 2021 they moved to Israel to study in Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s 10-Month Dance Journey Program. In June 2022 he joined Kibbutz’s main company as an apprentice under the direction of Rami Beer. In September 2023 they joined Spectrum Dance Theater in Seattle, Washington.
photo by Jeff Legere
Kince de Vera (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist and community catalyst born and raised in Manila, Philippines and now based in Seattle, WA. His work has been featured at Dimsum Dialogues at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle Pride, and The Self-Esteem Salon in New York City, one of several immersions for the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. He was most recently a guest presenter at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is working on performance art projects focused on Mental Health.
Follow him and his work across all platforms as @thislilgecko
Michael Walton (he/him) is a Seattle based teaching artist. He currently dances with KSD and BKirk dance as a company member and teaches all around the Seattle area. He holds a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts.
This is his second time performing in MEN IN DANCE.
Promo Images
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