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E|MERGE Interdisciplinary Arts Exchange E|MERGE encourages cross-disciplinary collaboration by forging new creative relationships. Skill sharing, collaboration, shared resources, and experimentation between forms will bridge known and unknown territories. |
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The Premise: The Result:
Friday 7:30 - 10:00pm Performance Session 1
Saturday 3:00 - 6:00pm Performance Session 2
Saturday 6:30 - 10:00pm Performance Session 3: Installations
ARTIST: Katarina Eriksson (dancer/improviser; Bay Area, CA) Project Statement of Interest: Frank's FriendsI would like to facilitate/direct a performance of improvised and set material, including movement, spoken word and music with 3-5 dancers/actors and 1–2 musicians with interest and experience in improvised, interdisciplinary performance. For this project I would like to share a set of tools that I have developed for working with the dialogue between improvisation and set work as well as the combination of abstract movement, imagery and text. Collaborators: 3–5 dancers and 1–2 musicians. Contact email: katta@kinetic.designs.com ARTIST: Kristen Greco Project Statement of Interest: On SolitudeA walk, an encounter, a return. A witnessing of the self. A witnessing of another. Each performance happens the same way, only once. The audience member writes. The performers dive through images and soundscapes inspired by themes of solitude, exile, hiding, privacy, and isolation. It is an installation, in a cabin, with you as the only observer. Collaborators: ideal—1 video artist, 1 live musician, 1 digital musician, 1 person who can dance and speak + myself…but minimum—one collaborator (the other dancer) Contact email: kristengreco10@gmail.com ARTIST: Julia Handschuh (visual arts/movement; Western MA) Project Statement of Interest: Recently I have been working on a series of sculptural installations and drawings that investigate an object's, my body's, or human beings' relationship to and impact on the environment. I have also been engaged in an improvisation performance practice with two other women, which draws on techniques used in physical theater (developed by Double Edge Theater Company) and Authentic Movement. I'd love the opportunity to take these objects (and somatic explorations) out of the traditional gallery/performance setting and into other landscapes and performance contexts. Collaborators: None specified but definitely an interest in exploring collaboration. Contact email: juliashoe@gmail.com ARTIST: Choreographer/Director David Hurwith Project Statement of Interest: Atmospheric PerspectiveExperiments towards a performance—I will create scenes from the surreal aspects of family life in single-family homes. Working with video projection and family ritual, we will research ways to present a specific context for a future performance. Collaborators: 4-5 people Contact email: antediluv5@gmail.com ARTISTS : Heather Kuhn and Emmy Bean Project Statement of Interest: PianosaurHeather Kuhn and Emmy Bean collaborate to create a performance-based exploration of an actual disappearance. As they use voices, movement, masks, and hands to re-tell the story, you will witness two humans diving into the abyss of an absent loved one, the ghost of a decaying instrument, the space left behind by their disappeared friend: the Pianosaur. Collaborators: 5-7 people Thursday through Saturday (or whenever we are scheduled to perform). Contact email: contact@earthdance.net (mention "Pianosaur" in your email) ARTIST: Peter Sciscioli Project Statement of Interest: What ChangePeter Sciscioli will work independently on his current evening-length work “What Change”, as well as collaboratively with other lead and participating collaborators in the E|MERGE residency to share in interdisciplinary approaches to making work. His Brooklyn-based collaborators (Deborah Black, Gideon Crevoshay and Mare Hieronimus) will be in attendance the last three days to offer open rehearsals and performances of the first draft of “What Change”. Collaborators: 3 or more others at a time potentially with a rotating group. Will work with personal NY collaborators from the 11 th on. Contact email: psciscioli@mac.com Project Statement of Interest: Through the sounds and textures of the winter landscape, a solo journey reveals the land's capacity for holding memory. Directed by West Coast experimental dance artist Terre Unité Parker & cinematographer (TBD). Intention: Create a short dance video. Theme: The sensory experience of how a place holds memory and the spaciousness of the winter landscape. Collaborators: 2 dancers, cinematographer Contact email: terreunite@gmail.com _ ARTIST: paige starling sorvillo Project Statement of Interest: Imaginary Facts, Necessary Fiction Our lives now are always temporary, precarious. We are at home everywhere and nowhere. As we try to fit ourselves in to a new globalized culture, we have the possibility to cling more tightly to and defend our existing or past notions of home and/or we have the possibility to accept and enliven the redefinitions we are creating and experiencing. As part of Earthdance's 2010 E|MERGE, paige starling sorvillo / blindsight introduces/researches Imaginary Facts, Necessary Fiction — a multi-disciplinary Rorsharch test on our sense of home. Collaborators: One to 20. A couple performers and maybe voice people, but strangely what I'd really like is people who can use screw guns and hammers and don't mind hauling crap around in a very specific way for a performance... I'd also love to work with a photographer! Contact email: paigesorvillo@mindspring.com ARTIST: Susan Oetgen Project Statement of Interest: First Aid for PerformersI'd like to work with any artist from any discipline who has a story to tell about injury and healing. Also, I'm interested in the further research possibility of conducting private interviews of anyone and everyone on the subject of injury and healing. Topics include: Identifying performing arts-related injuries; exploring concepts of triage and cure as well as the emotional memory of injury within the consciousness of the physical body; embodying illness or injury as well as wholeness and health; personifying illness/injury in scenes that depict their resolution or chronic status; improvisation as a means of exploring “treatment” as a concept. Collaborators: I could imagine working with a small group of 5 to 7 people or a larger group of 15 to 20 people. These would be cross-disciplinary artistic collaborations, as well as collaborations with non-artistic professionals—i.e., working with an educator or healthcare professional to create a ‘piece' that serves both as art as well as a functional tool to further their professional goals. Contact email: susanoetgen@gmail.com _ |
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