December … I am invited to return as a “guest
of honor” to the dance company I co-founded & co-directed for ten years.
Circle Modern Dance – Knoxville TN is having its 25th Anniversary
celebration this year. I return to perform in the annual winter concert Modern
Dance / Primitive Light at the beautiful Laurel Theatre.
I bring a live performance of RAW-(Material).
Six performances – each one utilizing the material developed throughout the
project so far in a ten-minute in-the-moment composition.
LIVE
PERFORMANCE
#23 RAW-(Material)
at
MODERN
DANCE PRIMITIVE LIGHT 2015 – Circle Modern Dance
Raw-(Material)
live at MDPL - video
date – December 16 – 19 2015
date – December 16 – 19 2015
location
– Laurel Theater, Knoxville TN
camera
– various (colleagues, audience, self)
2
Thur https://youtu.be/kgWXKtt_zH0
3
Fri 1 https://youtu.be/9ou2EvQuhGA
4
Fri 2 https://youtu.be/8GkUloUe4ek
5
Sat 1 https://youtu.be/RAATuUcPXjo
6
Sat 2 https://youtu.be/VT2koZfy5q0
7 Fri 1 – videographer Norman Madgen https://youtu.be/X4V87e9DdD4
Audience comments and feedback -
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4cHBYnXHpXzOFg5TmtZU2lCMU0/view?usp=sharing
7 Fri 1 – videographer Norman Madgen https://youtu.be/X4V87e9DdD4
Article:
The
Daily Times
Circle
Modern Dance Brings Back another founder for “Primitive Light”
By
Steve Wildsmith
Review:
Tableau Knoxville
A New Christmas Tradition:
A Review of Circle Modern Dance's Primitive
Light
By Leslie Ann Ellingburg
Audience comments and feedback -
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4cHBYnXHpXzOFg5TmtZU2lCMU0/view?usp=sharing
January – NYC – Transart Institute Winter
Residency.
My MFA peer Andrea Spaziani curates an event
of temporal mayhem & magic in The Gym at Judson Church – title:
SPACEBODIES.
As a live performance for SpaceBodies, I
proposed to continue my exploration of the Raw Materials of Self in the context
of Light & Space as interrogation of Self - a naked body in complete
blackness, searching the emptiness of space with movement & sound.
Dispersed throughout the environment are sources of light (flashlights, matches,
candles etc), which are each engaged briefly as a tool for self-illumination.
#24 RAW-(Material)
– light & space
at
SPACEBODIES
NY – Transart Institute
(curated
by Andrea Spaziani)
Raw-(Material)
– light & space – images
date
– January 10 2016
location
– Judson Gym, NYC
camera
– Raul Barcelona
https://www.flickr.com/photos/114531261@N02/albums/72157663902687809
February
Every year in the brutal New England winter,
a multitude of performers, musicians, dancers and video projection artists
invade a small town in Massachusetts and perform a series of improvised
collaborations … this is XFEST!
In this collaborative
improvisation, I use layers of clothing to symbolize the peeling off of layers
of skin.
XFEST
Improvisation Festival
#36 Skin Peeling:
Skin
Peeling at XFEST! – video
date
– February 26 2016
location
– XFEST improvisation festival – City Hall, Holyoke MA
camera
– tripod set-up
collaborators
– Audrey Chen, I’d m Theftable, Christos Koulendros, Michael Peters, Laura
Frare
(entire
performance) https://youtu.be/Gu43UMYBCN0
