May 22, 2008
Dancing in the Digital Domain concert May 29
Dancing in the Digital Domain, a concert exploring the interplay of movement and technology, opens at the UW’s Meany Studio Theatre on May 29 and runs through June 1. This collection of new work highlights the unique collaboration between UW Dance Program MFA students and doctoral and BFA students in DXARTS, UW’s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media.
An exciting feature of the concert is the involvement of technological innovation with original choreography in each of the pieces. The concert is the culmination of a yearlong process as those involved explore the boundaries and possibilities of physical movement paired with the ever-expanding opportunities created by technology.
Choreographers Louis Gervais and Jamie Hall, along with digital artists Michael McCrea, Jim George and Jared Friend present Soma, an exploration on the evolution of the human body, memory and touch. Choreographer Maria Cynthia Anderson, dancer Devin McDermott and musician/media artist Hugo Solis play with the constraints of time and space as the musician, dancer and digital points interact. PuPaa is a multimedia performance, inspired by Butoh, exploring transformative states of body, mind and perception with five dancers as five entities living in obligatory symbiosis, created by media artist Eunsu Kang, choreographer/visual artist Diana Garcia-Snyder and visual artist Bo Choi. Digital artist Heather Raikes and choreographer Kent Lindemer present Raktva Purnachandra, a performance of the body extended and rediscovered through a prism of technological expansion, mythic embodiment, multi-sensory language, and kinesthetic sculpture. Choreographer Catherine Cabeen, with digital artist Tivon Rice and visual artist Elizabeth Buschmann create an environment requiring the dancers to move between projected light sources and an array of sculptural pixellation screens.
Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.. Tickets are $14 general admission, $12 for faculty and staff, and $10 for students. Tickets are available on line at www.meany.org or at the UW Arts Ticket Office, 4001 University Way NE, Seattle, 206-543-4880.
