Works co-choreographed through the fierce playtime of Cori Marquis, Donnell Oakley and Deborah Lohse.

 

 

 

B.A.N.G.S.: made in america

2016 | 60 minutes

 

B.A.N.G.S.:  made in america is a kaleidoscopic pageant of status, attention, categorization, and femininity. In their first evening-length work, LMnO3 shape-shift in style and identity--donning everything from velvet evening-wear, to ripstop jumpsuits, to snack-filled purses, to sensible bathing suits--as they explore what they are, and aren’t, qualified to do. Serious play and creative instincts rule as the trio obsesses over the ideas behind B.A.N.G.S., a mnemonic acronym frequently used to help French language-learners remember which adjectives go in front of the noun: Beauty, Age, Number, Goodness and Size. Utilizing hard rap, body percussion, head lamps, a game show, and the power of female relationships, this comedic trio sets aside their own fear and doubt, beginning to repurpose how we can unapologetically wear our own B.A.N.G.S., afterall.

 

Figure It Out

2015 | 7 minutes

 

Figure It Out is an improvised modern dance game show, answering all your life questions, simply, through dance.

 

Ink Stink

2014 | 5 min

 

This is what happens when you trust your "ink stinks."

*DANCENOW 2014 Audience Challenge Winner

 

 

 

PERFORMANCES

 

 

Dance Now ENCORE!, Joe's Pub at The Public Theater [NYC] November 3-4, 2017

Dance Place [Washington, DC] October 28-29, 2017

Ringling International Arts Festival [Sarasota, FL] October 15-16, 2016

Brockport Summer Dance [SUNY Brockport, NY] May 17, 2016

American Dance Festival, Out of the Box [Durham, NC] April 15, 2016

DANCENOW Presents LMnO3, Joe's Pub at The Public Theater [NYC] February 12-13, 2016

 

Excerpts of B.A.N.G.S.: made in america

 

The Lumberyard January Showcase at New York Live Arts [NYC] January 9, 2017

Dancify THAT! @ Center for Performance Research [Brooklyn, NY] June 10, 2016

Gibney Dance's PoP: presented by Advanced Curation [NYC] May 8, 2016

Comedy in Dance Festival, Triskelion Arts [Brooklyn, NY] April 8-9, 2016

Steel Stacks [Bethlehem, PA] February 5, 2016

Never Before, Never Again Improv Festival, Triskelion Arts [Brooklyn, NY] January 14, 2016

Tiny Shorts, Elm City Dance Collective [New Haven, CT] November 6-7, 2015

DANCENOW ENCORE!, Joe's Pub [NYC] September 19, 2015

DANCENOW 2015 Festival 20th Anniversary Season, Joe's Pub [NYC] September 10, 2015

FOLLIES: Women Dance the Comic, The Yard [Martha's Vineyard, MA] July 16-18, 2015

DANCENOW ENCORE!, Joe's Pub [NYC] September 13, 2014

DANCENOW 2014 Festival, Joe's Pub [NYC] September 6, 2014

 

RESIDENCIES

 

SIlo Creative Residency [PA] January 2016

SIlo Creative Residency [PA] November 2015

SIlo Creative Residency [PA] October 2015

SIlo Creative Residency [PA] July 2015

 

 

 

PRESS

 

"Yes, they are phenomenal dancers, but for physical comedy, I've never seen better... I was reminded of my carefree adolescence at an all-girls summer camp when creative hyperbole and personal daring had yet to be stifled. In these charged days of aggression against women, what sheer pleasure to see the women of LMnO3 show what power really looks like." - Carrie Seidman, "RIAF Review: 'B.A.N.G.S.' is funny, to the power of three," The Herald-Tribune

 

"'At face value, you could say it’s a feminist rant on the false expectations of women and those obsessions that define us,' [Dwight Currie] says. 'But it’s so damned funny and they are so sincerely authentic and authentically sincere. I think that in 60 minutes they’ve captured the zeitgeist of the times and they do it with such bravura and virtuosity. To me, it’s sort of like the artist off the leash.'" - RIAF Preview, The Herald-Tribune

 

"Heads are still spinning, thinking about how much went onstage in B.A.N.G.S.: made in america. These three think in hyperdrive, much quicker than normal humans. It's not just the dancing, or the acting, or the lip-synching; the flux speed of their performance leaves audience thought-drenched, processing what they just saw while their eyes hold on to what is happening now." - Quinn Batson, "The Power of Three" Review, OffOffOff

 

"Sexiness, or toughness, or daintiness, or any other kind of femininity, resides to a remarkable degree in what we wear and how we wear it (or take it off). Feminine identity can be remarkably fluid and capacious, if often problematically contradictory. And yet, whichever performance of femininity we choose, or symbolically refuse by going without its trappings, we have no choice but to live it and embody it. That embodiment makes us vulnerable. It is also the only way we can go out into the world, and claim our power. In an evening of raucous fun, the trio of LMnO3 showed us how to be boldly, optimistically vulnerable." - Lara Freidenfelds, "Sequins, Fur, Nudity, Arabesques, and Seriously Funny Commentary on Modern Girlhood"

 

"Beyond the temporal and spatial constraints [of the DanceNow Festival], anything goes. This year’s motley contenders include...the combined forces of the charismatic dancers Deborah Lohse, Donnell Oakley and Cori Marquis." - Siobhan Burke, New York Times

 

"But silly brilliance ruled the night...Lohse, Marquis and Oakley took names and kicked some butt in Ink Stink, playing against the words of a rapper seeking the crown of Miss Ogynist and turning them on their head, to full comic effect. Who knew tiny purses held such sustenance?" - Quinn Batson, OffOffOff

 

"The winner on Saturday was the offbeat "Ink Stink," choreographed, performed and costumed by Deborah Lohse, Cori Marquis and Donnell Oakley. They strutted and preened upon the stage to Ludacris's "Move Bitch" and won over the audience's hearts and funny bones...Marquis echoed what all the performers love about the festival. 'Even with the competitive element, there is a lot of camaraderie because I think it's a home team vibe, where everyone is on the same page and rooting for each other with the audience rooting. It's a special incubator for new ideas, which are easy to present here.'" - Bonnie Rosenstock, ExploreDance.com