Exploring Experimental Dance of AUNTS with Its Directors
Stern Interviews Dirks-Goodman and Berg at Luluc in Cobble Hill
By Carrie Stern
My first encounter with AUNTS was recorded in a May 3, 2007, Eagle column. Jmy Leary (who at the time went by Jamm) and Rebecca Brooks, with Biba Bell and others, had started producing multi-disciplinary performance experiences in which audience and performers were equally important, where artists of many levels of experience performed alongside each other. Events had the quality of early 70s happenings.
Leary left Brooklyn returning to her home state of California in 2010. Before leaving she handed the future of AUNTS to Liliana Dirks-Goodman, a visual artist, graphic designer and architect, who maintains the web for New York Live Arts, and Laurie Berg, a jewelry designer, dancer and choreographer. Last week we chatted about how they are making AUNTS their own. Their words often tumbled over each other, two voices telling one story.