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Berg Jones & Sarvis are known for wry and unpredictable pieces marked by multiple meanings and striking spatial clarity. Concerts may comprise trios, pieces with current collaborators, or Glacial Drift with Alan Bray and Chris Moore. Except for site-specific works or workshop performances, the trio performs on proscenium stages or fully converted loft-type spaces; They have performed at venues such as Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, University of California at Riverside, 100 Grand Street (New York), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (Maine), and Bennington, Bates, and Bowdoin Colleges. For technical requirements write or email us at bjs@maine.rr.com.


Museum Pieces
Using exhibits, existing architecture, and social context, Berg, Jones & Sarvis create commissioned works and lead performance workshops in museums and galleries. They have directed projects from one-day workshops to two-week residencies at:
• Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
• Fogg Museum (Harvard)
• Rose Art Museum (Brandeis University)
• Portland Museum of Art
• Walker Art Museum (Bowdoin College)
• Baxter Gallery (Portland School of Art).


Glacial Drift

Glacial Drift is a collaborative performance piece created by painter Alan Bray, musician Chris Moore, and dancers Berg, Jones & Sarvis. Developed in residencies at the grange hall in East Sangerville Maine, Glacial Drift moves through the seasons of a year in Maine with quirky digressions into the stories of these five artists and the beauty, adversity, and humor of their lives in Maine. The work is inspired by the real and imagined landscapes of Alan Bray as embodied in his lyrical and playful set pieces. The action is propelled by Chris Moore's richly colored score, including virtuoso mandolin picking, found sound, multi-track recordings, and a lament played on the parlor organ. At once personal and mythic, Glacial Drift informs our sense of place, and prompts reflection on our own experiences at the juncture of human activity and the natural landscape.

"They swoop, they glide, they sail and brave the elements...seldom has the soul of a region been so humorously, yet lovingly, depicted in dance."
Portland Press Herald