FILM & VIDEO

FILM & VIDEO to be shown at NECTAR: Affinity at Yoga Soup, October 20th

Preshow – 7:00-7:30 slot
BodySensate– Matt Nelson
Salem, OR
Film: Permaculture Dance Project
Description of the film:
With a generous faculty research grant from the Willamette University Center for Sustainable Communities, we set forth to investigate the principles of permaculture, a model for sustainable living, through movement. I worked with 4 dancers and a videographer for a month, 5 days a week. Much of our work took place at Zena Farm, an organic farm owned by Willamette, and some of our work took place in the theatre. The final work is a dance for camera that reveals the results of our phenomenological inquiry.

During performances– 7:30 – 9:00 slot

Robin Bisio/Ted Mills/Ghost Tiger
Santa Barbara, CA
Description of Video
Ghost Tiger's Whiskey Winter video reprises Robin Bisio's PICNIC IN GALAPAGOS as a fever dream with dancers Kaita Lepore and Monica Ford. Directed by Ted Mills with camera by Nik Blaskovich, the video features the music of rising Santa Barbara-based indie band Ghost Tiger. Choreography is by Robin Bisio with make-up by Anaya Cullen. Video projections are by Jon Smith. Stills for film by Kathee Miller

EXPERIMENTAL & PROCESS ORIENTED WORK

Experimental work that will be shown at Fishbon, October 17th
Starts 7:30 pm

SKYPE PERFORMANCES
ArtBark International will give a new skype performance process they are developing a test run.  Concept Misa Kelly and Joanna Nobbe.  Joanna Nobbe will be performing live from New York against the memory of creative work of ArtBark Artists in the studio.  

CHOREOGRAPHIC GAMES
To be presented pre-show at Yoga Soup October 20th
Games start at 7:00 pm
Current ArtBark collaborators Misa and Stephen Kelly, Patrick Lindley, Chris Rhawles, Melissa Block & Tess Jacobs invite the audience to engage as creative beings. 

MUSIC

To be presented at Yoga Soup October 20th

Valarie Mulberry
Description of Songs that Valarie will sing
Island – song inspired while living on the island of Maui, Hawaii.
Future Cowboy – a song about a fun and lively little boy named Lake.
The Simple Things- about enjoying the nature of an island life and love

DANCES

DANCES to be performed at Yoga Soup on October 20th, pre-show starts at 7:00 pm and ARC PASADENA October 21st @ 4:30 pm.

East Coast

TRINA MANINNO
Brooklyn, NY
To be performed both at ARC Pasadena and at Yoga Soup

Title of Dance: The Presence of Absence
Description of Dance:
The Presence of Absence came out of a duet that was conceived in early 2012 and is set to a recording of Jack Kerouac’s 1958 free-form poem "The MacDougal Street Blues". By identifying the rhythm, imagery, meter, and cadence in Kerouac’s prose, I then translated those elements to the body with the intention of creating a visual poem.

I generate material through improvisation, and am inspired by the rich and descriptive language Kerouac used to paint the city of New York and its idiosyncratic characters. I experiment with the juxtaposition between rhythm and melody, and explore what it is like to create gestures based on the text verses creating on the abstract.

I am also investigating the idea of time and how objects and setting morph, disappear, and reappear. How has New York’s cityscape changed from Kerouac’s New York to now? How have the sights, sounds and smells changed or stayed the same? Do his texts still hold true today and if so, how? These are a sample of questions I continue to ask myself in the rehearsal process.

I plan to expand the piece into a 30 minute work that is composed of vignettes, two solos and a video component. I plan to use additional Kerouac prose interspersed between deconstructed jazz pieces that were composed around the 1950’s. Philadelphia-based artist, Vincent Finazzo, created a projection in response to Kerouac’s choice of imagery and language and will be directing the video component of the project.
Length of Dance: 5 minutes

DANCE ENTROPY - Valerie Green
Long Island City, New York
Works to be performed at Yoga Soup - 7:00 pm event starts

Title of Dance: Thread (2008)
Choreography by Valerie Green
Performed by Valerie Green, Kristin Licata, Julia Sabangan
Music by Maharaja
Costumes by Slobodanka Olar
Length 9.30 min.

Description: This dance timelessly loops together an intriguing sense of relation and ceremony, whereby three women ravel, unravel, tangle, attach, separate, and are drawn back to one another to eventually knot.

Title: t.b.d (premiere)
Choreography by Valerie Green
Performed by Kristin Licata, Julia Sabangan
Music by Gabby Young and other Animals
Costumes by Valerie Green
Length 6.30 min.

Description: Duet inspired by ones personal idiosyncrasies, and desires to be an individual while juxtaposed with the need for support and contact with others. The duet feature moments where the dancers are connected, overlapped, as well as inside and outside of each other’s clothes at the same time. The dancers slip in and out of these situations, forced to deal with the comfort and discomfort of intimacy.

DANCE ENTROPY - Valerie Green
Long Island City, New York
Works to be performed at ARC Pasadena
Title: Secret of the Girl of the Flowers (2012)
Choreographed and Performed by Valerie Green
Music by Jasmin Levy and Decodex
Stage Design by Valerie Green
Costume by Deborah Erenberg
Length: 11 min.
Description: Secret of the Girl of the Flowers is a metaphor for transformation, while suggesting a non-linear expression of a life cycle, aging, and the disruption of order amidst an installation of hundreds of flowers. The girl of the flowers breaks the rules of nature by disobeying conventional behavior, and changing her forms. Executed through cunning sensuality, juxtaposing a dose of ugliness alongside beauty and unpleasant seductions, all sourced from the deep recesses of the character's psyche. The work is rich in texture, while exhibiting raw power mixed with delicate human vulnerability.

Title: Thread (2008)
Choreography by Valerie Green
Performed by Valerie Green, Kristin Licata, Julia Sabangan
Music by Maharaja
Costumes by Slobodanka Olar
Length 9.30 min.
Description: This dance timelessly loops together an intriguing sense of relation and ceremony, whereby three women ravel, unravel, tangle, attach, separate, and are drawn back to one another to eventually knot.

Title: t.b.d (premiere)
Choreography by Valerie Green
Performed by Kristin Licata, Julia Sabangan
Music by Gabby Young and other Animals
Costumes by Valerie Green
Length 6.30 min.
Description: This duet is inspired by ones personal idiosyncrasies, and desires to be an individual while juxtaposed with the need for support and contact with others. The duet feature moments where the dancers are connected, overlapped, as well as inside and outside of each others' clothes at the same time. The dancers slip in and out of these situations, forced to deal with the comfort and discomfort of intimacy.

WEST COAST

PERCEPTIONS WEST – Molly Lynch
San Francisco, CA
Work to be performed at both ARC Pasadena and Yoga Soup
Title of Dance: Dance De Terroir
Description:
"Dance De Terroir" explores the unique characteristics of home and the land we come from. "Terroir" (often referred to as the earth that wine grows on) depicts what unique characteristics come from it its soil. Is the same true for people? How much do our roots to a physical place, or multiple physical places, contribute to the unique characteristics that make us us? We will look at where we come from, the land we grew up on and how that relates to us as individuals and what part of our sense of self is grounded in the "terroir" from our youth. That is, how much of our home, the physicality of it, the people, and the literal land make us who we are? These are questions that we seek in the choreography and performance of this piece. And as honestly as we can, we share stories with each other, the audience and ourselves of our youth and the physical land we were grown on.

ARPANA DANCE COMPANY – Ramya Harishankar
Los Angeles, CA

Performance at Yoga Soup
Title of Dance -Kaliya Mardhanam
Kaliya Mardhanam - It is a unique piece that combines dance, music, storytelling and spoken word to fully represent Indian dance. A 5000 year old myth is interpreted thru this language of dance and tells of the importance of preserving our planet.
Length of Dance - 5 minutes

Performance at ARC Pasadena
Title of Dance - Bho Shambho
Description of Dance - Nataraja, the cosmic dancer represents the whole universe in a constant movement or 'dance'. His dynamic iconographic representation depicts the coming together of the 5 elements - water, fire, earth, wind and space which breathe life into this world of ours. Bharata Natyam is a interdisciplinary dance form combining the arts of melody, rhythm, poetry, mythology, philosophy and theater.
Length of Dance - 9 minutes

HART PULSE DANCE COMPANY – Amanda Hart
Los Angeles, CA
This work will be performed both at ARC Pasadena and Yoga Soup
Title of Dance – Fluff
Description of Dance:  when you become enveloped in that fluffy feeling of love and security, wrapped in the arms of a loved one.
Length of Dance: 4 minutes

MOVEMENT THEATER COLAB – Robert Salas
Los Angeles, CA

Work to be performed at ARC Pasadena and at Yoga Soup
Title: Visions and Vortices
Description: Visions and Vortices for Two is a dynamic modern duet exploring the dynamic forces that govern passion and the complexity of human emotion.
Length of dance: 9:10

RUBANS ROUGE DANCE COMPANY – Noelle Andressen Kale
Los Angeles, CA

Title of Dance:

Pasadena Show: "Cygyzy"

Santa Barbara Show: "Begotten"

Description of Dance: "Begotten" is a piece that looks how relationships emerge and evolve, the merging of two becoming one and united. "Cygyzy" portrays an alignment of the universe: how good, bad, and neutrality can find ways to co-exist.

ARTBARK INTERNATIONAL - Melissa Block
Dance to be performed at Yoga Soup
Title of Dance: power/less
Description of Dance: This solo explores the notion and embodiment of empowerment - in particular, female empowerment.

NECTAR COLLABORATIVE – Cybil Gilbertson
Dance to be performed at Yoga Soup
Title of Dance: TBD
Description of dance: An investigation into transformation. A caterpillar does not become a butterfly, but in fact the caterpillar dies and a butterfly is born.
Length of dance: 5-8 minutes