Amber Sloan Informal Performance/Studio Showing and Discussion

Choreographed and performed by Amber Sloan, "A, E, I, O, You, and Sometimes Why" is an autobiographical, evening-length solo dance performance that explores the psyche through four separate but interconnected topics: Aging, Ego, Injury, and Obsession, all as witnessed through the audience's lens. Part preparation for battle, part celebration of maturity, the work functions as a love letter to the exhilaration and anguish that comes with a lifetime onstage.

"Invited into Sloan’s world of memory, the audience experiences chapters of Sloan’s life through her refreshingly vulnerable lens as a talented and genuine dancer and choreographer. A, E, I, O, You, and Sometimes Why strikes a chord with past, present, injured, healthy, and working dancers, and in return, we say thank you."

This event is free.

Amber Sloan is a 2023 Choreography Fellow from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her work has been presented by Centro Cultural Los Talleres in Mexico City, The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard, EstroGenius Festival, Dance on the Lawn, Roulette Theater, Dixon Place, Soaking WET at the West End Theatre, 92Y, and Green Space, as well as a 19-year commissioning relationship with the DanceNow Festival. She performs with The Bang Group and teaches dance composition at The Ailey School. Amber is the Assistant Executive Director of Arts On Site, co-director of Women in Motion NYC, and serves on the advisory board of Art Omi: Dance. She holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she was honored with the 2015 Beverly Blossom/Carey Erickson Alumni Dance Award.