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You are waiting for the PUNCHLINE<\/em>… no need to worry, it happens to all of us. The 2023-2024 Performance Season opens with the debut of celebrated physical dance theater company VIM VIGOR and the NYC premiere of PUNCHLINE.<\/em> \u00a0VIM\u2019s latest work translates comedic structure into physical form, drawing audiences into a cathartic experience of humor, angst and the sublime. Through movement and radical storytelling, audiences will find themselves embedded in a living landscape where three performers traverse the space between comedy and death; wrestling with the inevitable while delighting in the transcendent awareness of limited time.\u00a0 PUNCHLINE<\/em> features choreography and performance by Shannon Gillen and Jason Cianciulli and is set to an original electronica sound score by Marshall Chadbourne.<\/p>\r\nABOUT SHANNON GILLEN <\/strong><\/h5>\r\nShannon Gillen is the Artistic Director of VIM VIGOR. Her creative work has been commissioned across the USA, Canada, Central America, South America and Europe. Projects include commissions by L.A. Dance Project, dance.films for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, b12 Festival, fashion label Phelan for NY fashion week, Danceworks at the Lobero Theatre, Hubbard Street 2, Gibney Dance Company, Over het lj, Jacob\u2019s Pillow, Boston Dance Theater at the ICA, Ruvuelo, Mainfranken Theater W\u00fcrzburg, Arts Umbrella, Solo-Tanz Theater Festival, TIF theater, de danseurs, as a think big choreographer-in-residence at Staatsoper Hannover and at Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton where she was a choreographer in residence. Notable festivals and venues where her work has been seen include Springboard Danse Festival in Montreal, New York Live Arts, Prisma Festival in Panama, Judson Church, Pulse Art Fair\/Art Basel, Bryant Park, NYC\u2019s River to River Festival, Perry Mansfield, and the Joyce. Prior to founding VIM VIGOR, she danced for Johannes Wieland\u2019s at the Staatstheater Kassel in Germany. Gillen is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and earned her MFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.<\/span><\/p>\r\n