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home | bodies
the finding home series
performance | Aiko Kinoshita & Aaron Swartzman
original sound score | Amy Denio
lighting |Amiya Brown
video | Kathryn Padberg
scenography | Etta Lilenthal
A compelling, site-specific evening-length movement performance at the former INS Federal building, home | bodies examines the rich and ordinary subject of “home”. Part performance, part installation, the work makes use of multiple spaces, video, and an impressive range of partner and solo dancing to depict both the effort to coexist with another in the physical container that we call home, and the even more intimate endeavor of dwelling comfortably within ourselves. More details below. photos: /Tim Summers.
|| Tickets
at www.brownpapertickets.com || $12-$25
August 1
& 8 at 3pm and August 10 - 14 at 8pm
At INSCAPE, (the former Immigration and Naturalization Services Federal
Building),
815 Airport Way S (just south of Uwajimaya)
Tickets at BrownPaperTickets.com // $12 - $25
(seating extremely limited, advanced ticketing recommended)
More info @ UMAMIPerformance@gmail.com
Integrating and building upon material and ideas from the previous three works of the Finding Home Series, Aiko Kinoshita and Aaron Swartzman create an intimate, abstract narrative about home, relationship, and the body. Utilizing dynamic partnering, cinematic imagery, improvisation and theatrical elements, they create and move through multiple shades of home. Seattle composer Amy Denio’s far ranging sound score incorporates ordinary sounds such as washing machines, birds and crickets to create a sonic landscape which accompanies the duet on its metaphorical journey through a day. The dancing ranges from frenetic to subtle, the images from funny to profound, the props from kitchen tables to clothes hampers and closets, the emotions from routine to deeply intimate.
UMAMI performance has been creating movement metaphors grounded in
the extraordinariness of the everyday for the past 4 years. Their
latest work, performed at the 2009 NWNW festival, received rave reviews
from press and audience alike. Dynamic performers each accomplished
in their own right, Kinoshita and Swartzman's collaboration continues
to grow through a shared interest in the meeting of set and improvised
material and the challenge of creating clear and cohesive story-telling
within the rawness and immediacy of improvisation. They aim to stay
true to the depth and mystery of their artistic process while crafting
subtle, gripping dance work, rooted in everyday experience. They share
a long history as generative performers in Seattle's LINGO dancetheater,
and in other improvisational performance and co-teaching ventures.
about the collaborators
Amy Denio (composer) is a multi-instrumentalist composer, singer and music producer based in Seattle. She has recorded & released more than 35 collaborative or solo CDs on her record label Spoot Music and has been commissioned to write music for dance, theater and film in the United States and Europe for the last 25 years. She has created music with artists from North America, East and West Europe, Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, India, and Russia. A long-time collaborator with David Dorfman Dance, she recieved a Bessie Award for Composition (NYC) for her soundtrack to Dorfman’s piece 'Sky Down,' and premiered new music at Brooklyn Academy of Music ‘Next Wave’ series for Dorfman’s piece ‘To Lie Tenderly’.
AmiyaBrown (Lighting Designer) recently completed her Masters Degree in Theatrical Lighting Design at the University of Washington. While at UW, she designed lights for A U-Dubber Nights Dream, Dance Major’s Concert 2010, Eugene Onegin, Blithe Spirit, and Wild Black Eyed Susans. Other local productions include Washington Ensemble Theatre’s RoboPop! and Amelia Reeber’s This is a Forgery and Dream Life (winner of the On the Boards A.W.A.R.D. Show.) Prior to grad school, she was the resident lighting designer for the Austin Shakespeare Festival, designing such shows as Richard III, As You Like It, The Rivals, and Hamlet. She is also a dancer, painter, and sculpture.
Etta Lilienthal (Sceneographer) is a scenographer, production designer and visual designer residing in Seattle. Her most recent scene design projectsfor dance and theater include Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Intiman, A Contemporary Theatre, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Book-It, The Empty Space, Madison Repertory Theatre, Theater Schmeater, Youth Theatre Northwest, Printer’s Devil Theatre, Maureen Whiting Dance Company and 33 Fainting Spells. Feature film credits include Production Design for Cthulhu and Police Beat. Etta studied scene design at Smith College, Textile Design at the Glasgow School of Arts and holds a Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts in Scene Design from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She was a participant of the 2OO3-2005 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers, as well as the recipient of a 2OOO Artist Trust/ Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship and a 1998 Princess Grace Foundation Scholarship Award for Scene Design.
Kathryn Padberg (video installation) received her MFA from The Ohio State University, is a founding member of tindance, dances with acornDance and is presently a Co-Artistic Director of Dance Art Group. Kathryn has premiered video works in NYC at Dance Theater Workshop and the Reverb Festival and elsewhere and continues to create videos for The Joyce Theater and independent choreographers.
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