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ZaZa invites you to our newest performance experience on January 21, 2011.
"Stretch Coast 3-D "
Friday, January 21, 2011
This evening length's dance will be rooted by an artistic vision of a changing, unpredictable environment and its inhabitants. The performance aesthetic can be characterized as biological prehistory, or as epochal geologic change, or as a community coping with an altered landscape. Performers move/dance/fly through an aerial structure of ropes and across a floor of changing earth. Encounters include recognizable social relationships submerged in the flow of communal necessity. Live music will be composed and performed for this work. The dance will run through three weekends for a sum of nine planned performances.
Members of ZaZa Dance Theatre have been working collaboratively and
performing together over the last 10-20 years. In Stretch Coast 3-D we have created a time-traveling work in progress, presented in an accumulation of
layers. This piece began to take form 5 years ago when we integrated movement and video from performances in San Francisco at Mariposa Studio
and outdoors in Brooklyn. These were projected at a live performance (called
Stretch Coast) at the Joyce Soho, where further video was made and then
projected at a later performance in San Francisco, adding up to 4 layers of
dancers projected onto a live performance of the same dancers, passing
through Brooklyn, San Francisco, Manhattan, and now again Brooklyn, moving
through years, travelers always in transition, between one state and the
next.
Our work method is a simple score using both composed sequences and instant
choreography -- movement found in the moment, born of long familiarity and
shared practice. All the performers come from different training traditions
(including ballet, modern dance, contact improvisation, trapeze and aerial
arts, clowning) and are sometimes foolish explorers, sometimes strict
technicians, hoping to use movement as communication and intelligence. We
try to always work with live musicians, creating yet another layer of
meaning through improvisational and jazz approaches.
Dance: Samir Bitar, Theresa Dickinson, Maica Folch, Chris Sia
Music: Peter Whitehead, Chris Sia.
Irondale Theater
85 Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY
G train to Fulton; A,C to Lafayette |
