FOOTLOOSE PRESENTS THE
EIGHTH ANNUAL WOMEN ON THE WAY FESTIVAL
WHEN: Throughout January 2008. All shows 8:00pm
Online Calendar: www.ftloose.org/wow.html
WHERE: Shotwell Studios & The Garage (975 Howard St)
COST: $20 ($15 if purchased online here)
Info | Tickets: Tix can be purchased online, at the door, at TIX Booth or reserved by calling 415.289.2000
Can't make it but would like to support DV?
Now in its eighth year, the annual Women on the Way Festival is produced by Artistic Director, Mary Alice Fry. Fry chose to present at two intimate venues, the Footloose home base, Shotwell Studios and the new SOMA venue, The Garage, run by Fry's former co-director, Joe Landini under the auspices of SAFEhouse. The two spaces have been busy this year with up-and-coming dance companies and solo artists creating new work in residencies (Artists in Motion and raw&uncut). Those that were chosen for the festival along with other applicants make up over 20 shows in the three-week run. Schedules for each venue, descriptions for the shows and websites for the participants are listed at www.ftloose.org/wow.html.
DOUBLE VISION will be premiering an excerpt of Cycle, as well as Three Canons and Mise En Scenes. DV Performances will be at The Garage on January 18 [Fri] (SPECIAL INTERMEDIA PROGRAM), January 19 [Sat], January 24 [Thurs], Jaunary 25 [Fri], January 27 [Sun]. A special evening featuring internationally renown experimental artists Laetitia Sonami and Les Stuck will take place on January 18. Please check the Footloose sight for additional details on all events and artists!
Cycle (World Premiere - Excerpt)
Choreography: Pauline Jennings
Sound: Sean Clute
Performance: Blaine Bookey, Mira Cook, Amanda Crawford, Pauline Jennings, Wendy Marinaccio, Cecelia Peterson
Costume Design: Andrea Campbell
Three Canons and Mise en ScÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡nes (2007)
Choreography: Pauline Jennings
Sound / Video: Sean Clute
Musical excerpts: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 III Valse: Allegro Moderato
Performance: Blaine Bookey, Mira Cook, Amanda Crawford, Wendy Marinaccio, Cecelia Peterson
Intermedia Performance on Jan. 18 [Fri]:
DOUBLE VISION (works listed above)
Laetitia Sonami (The Appearance of Silence)
Les Stuck (Step Edit)
LAETITIA SONAMI is an electronic composer, performer and sound installation artist. Her performance work combines text, music and found sound in compositions that have been called "performance novels". Her interactive installations focus on embedding every day objects with kinetic and sonic personalities. She is best known for her lady's glove, an evening black lycra glove studded with a myriad of sensors, which allows to track her body's motion and turn movement into sound.
Sonami creates a truly original, intimate, spontaneous art form, transcending the technology with which it's made. The recipient of numerous awards among which the Herb Alperts Awards for the Arts, Sonami has been performing internationally and lives in the Bay Area. "...Experimental music is rarely this visceral and engaging" Los Angeles Times
THE APPEARANCE of SILENCE (The Invention of Perspective).
"The Appearance of Silence" is inspired by the early Italian Renaissance paintings which drew on Alberti's first treatise on perspective and applied the first rules to "reliably" represent perception of objects in space. This shift from a symbolic to a realistic representation of the world has driven technologies and each attempt introduces its own idiosyncrasies. Ironically, the current pursuit for reducing the amount of data necessary for representation, has flattened our depth of field. Perspective, and the lack thereof, is here sonically represented by layering concrete, iconic sounds, with electronically abstracted sounds. The performer's body is the viewpoint, ever shifting perspectives and juggling spaces. The lady's glove, in its firth incarnation, is fitted with an array of sensors and allows up to 30 simultaneous controls of sound parameters. Reading of Alberti's treatise in Latin by Father Don Osuna. More info at http://www.sonami.net
LES STUCK has composed music for William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, Alonzo King, Alex Ketley, David Parsons, Charlie Moulton and Hiroshi Koike; with commissions by the Nederlands Dans Theater, the New York City Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Tokyo Ballet, the Tokyo National Opera, and the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. He has created numerous works with dancer-movement-controlled computer music, notably for the Kanagawa Arts Festival and Tokyo's ICC museum. His video "bars + tone" has been shown at six film festivals and received the "Best of Show--Experimental" award at the Berkeley Film Festival.
STEP EDIT
I was invited to choreograph a dance based on original movement phrases by Alex Ketley. This involved a lot of directed improvisation by the dancers of the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and the resulting
piece "Digression" was premiered at the 2007 West Wave Dance Festival. I then used videos of the performances and rehearsals to create a video performance work which in which I manipulate the images and sounds in real-time. The original dance performance becomes a document to be reconstructed, recycled, and reinvented.