BLiPSWiTCH + Aubrey Hays
Artists:
BLiPSWiTCH
Taryn Lavery, a Utah native, fuses her classical background with a desire to revitalize modern dance for broader audiences, extracting a new form of contemporary performance. She is a dancer with multimedia dance company, ARCOS, works regularly with Jennifer Sherburn and freelances throughout Austin. Taryn is a founder and co-director of Austin's BLiPSWiTCH, a project-based dance company focused on collaboration and site-specific works as an avenue to community expansion.
Alex Miller is a dance artist and certified Pilates instructor originally from Louisiana. She earned her BFA in Performing Arts with a concentration in dance from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and her MFA in dance from Hollins University in partnership with Frankfurt University/MA Code in Virginia, New York, Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany. Alex is the co-founder and co-director of BLiPSWiTCH, an Austin-local site-specific dance company. Alex teaches contemporary dance classes for professional movers at First Street Studios and for teens at Tarrytown Dance. She teaches Pilates at Myo Massage, Movement and Acupuncture and Pilates on Kerbey.
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Photo: Jade Skye Hammer
What do you love about the Austin arts community?
“We love the creative spirit of this city, and feel so much gratitude to all those we have been lucky enough to work with over the past five years. Austin artists are so willing to collaborate and lift one another up— it really makes a difference when we support across our individual networks and we have personally witnessed how that has played a role in the dance community expanding and becoming more intersectional.”
- BLiPSWiTCH
Aubrey Hays
Floating lily pads on tranquil lakes are what Aubrey Hays’ shimmering guitar and vocals most closely resemble. Beneath her trembling vibrato are warm musical arrangements that propel touching stories of travel and lament. Her bold musical sensibility relies on colorful and original harmonic twists in turn inspired by a legion of blues and folk songstresses such as Joni Mitchell and Janis Joplin. Regardless of the vulnerability in her playing, Aubrey Hays takes the stage with the confidence and presence of a seasoned veteran.
Website: www.aubreyhays.band
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“I love the Austin arts community for its supportiveness. A lot of other towns with bigger arts scenes can seem kind of cutthroat, but here I've felt so supported and welcomed by my fellow artists and musicians. It seems like everyone is really just invested in helping out their fellow artists and seeing how we can work together to create a more diverse and visible arts scene that helps craft the culture of Austin, TX.”
- Aubrey Hays
Location:
Live Printing, Screen Printing, Retail, Vintage, Design & Good Times.
507 Calles St, #109. Austin, Texas
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