Pairings is a unique culinary experience featuring food and drinks paired with theater, music, and dance. The event is a special collaboration between artists across a diverse range of art forms. A select chef and mixologist work with performing artists to pair seasonal tastes with live performances. The event includes a 3 course food and drink tasting paired with 3 performances.
Arts On Site is excited to share with you an evening of thoughtfully curated tastes and artistic expression, with ethically-sourced seasonal ingredients by chef Brian Arsenault, drinks from The Smith mixologist Ryan Garrison, and performances from LMnO3, Hannah Epperson and BARE Dance Company.
Read more about the performing artists below.
LMnO3 - The collaborative trio LMnO3 (Deborah Lohse, Cori Marquis and Donnell Oakley) met in 2010 while working with Doug Elkins, and launched into a choreographic partnership in 2014. Their first evening-length piece, B.A.N.G.S.: made in america, was commissioned by Dance Now NYC and premiered at Joe’s Pub. B.A.N.G.S. has toured to the American Dance Festival, MusikFest in PA, Sarasota’s Ringling International Arts Festival, DC’s Dance Place, Dance Now Boston, The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard, and Denver’s Clocktower Cabaret. LMnO3 has been granted residencies through SILO, American Dance Institute/Lumberyard, SUNY Brockport, and Fourth Arts Block.
Hannah Epperson - Armed with her violin, loop pedal and voice, sonic weaver Hannah Epperson arranges musical landscapes without indulgence or over-saturation. As a solo performer and collaborative artist, she has joined forces with a versatile cast of collaborators across a spectrum of genres and disciplines. More recently, these creative explorations have included composing and performing for interdisciplinary film and dance projects across the country and in New York, where she now resides. Hannah's breadth as a collaborative and compositional powerhouse stems from from an eclectic experiential and educational background: from learning Appalachian folk tunes by ear with a cowgirl in Utah to traveling through Scandinavia and Europe as an accompanist; or from touring her solo project by sailboat with permaculturists to accompanying Flamenco dancers in Spain, before finishing her Honours Degree in Human Geography and representing Canada at World Championships for ultimate frisbee in 2015 and 2017.
BARE - BARE Dance Company was established in 2005 by Mike Esperanza with the help of Dance/ USA and the Irvine Foundation. Over the years, BARE’s versitile approach to movement has been described as “smart, effective, technically accomplished work" (Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times). BARE has produced acclaimed productions in the Southern California area and has headlined events for the Orange County Children’s Therapeutic Arts Center, The Center Orange County, Inland AIDS projects and the Epilepsy Foundation of Southern California. BARE was nominated for numerous Lester Horton awards for productions in the Southern California including “Manhattan”, a work selected by ODC Theater to tour CA as part of their 2011 “Innerstate” program. BARE was also awarded the paid engagement award at the 2011 Dance Under the Stars festival in Palm Spring, CA. BARE relocated to New York City in 2012 and has produced work for Danspace Project, Dixon Place, Peridance and Ailey Citigroup Theater. In 2014, BARE was selected to take part in the inaugural CUNY Dance Initiative and will produce a new work for LaGuardia Performing Arts Center.