Finally…the culmination of many strands of work, including the video/dance diary I kept throughout 2010. Excited about last months of rehearsal with Philippe Bronchtein, Jin Camou, Catherine Egan, Keyon Gaskin, Esther LaPointe, Danielle Ross, Lucy Yim, Seth Nehil and Jeff Forbes.
A head of time
a new ensemble work by Linda Austin
March 23-25 at Imago Theatre
| WHO: | Choreographer Linda Austin, collaborating with sound artist Seth Nehil and an ensemble of 7 dancers. |
| WHAT: |
A head of time is am intermedia ensemble dance work |
| WHEN: | Friday and Saturday March 23 & 24 at 8pm Sunday March 25 at 2pm and 7pm |
| WHERE: |
Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., Portland, OR 97213 |
| TICKETS: | $12-$20 sliding scale |
| INFO: | 503-777-1907 or visit www.pwnw.wordpress.com |
Performance Works NorthWest premieres Linda Austin’s A head of time, a sifting together of time, memory, perceptual experience and mortality. Subtly virtuosic and imaginative movement, a set comprised of 300 stacked blankets, video, text, and a sound score by Seth Nehil are churned together and teased apart as the ensemble of 8 dancers explores the tensions between the body as finite, vulnerable, mortal container and the infinite expanses of time, lived experience and future hopes within each of us—all of it jostling with our flickering focus on the present moment. Throughout, big notions of Time-Space-Body-Mortality-Memory-Consciousness meet the bittersweet humor of the everyday.
These performances of A head of time are supported in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council and Work for Art.
Choreography (in collaboration with the dancers): Linda Austin
Dancers: Linda Austin, Philippe Bronchtein, Jin Camou, Catherine Egan, Keyon Gaskin, Esther LaPointe, Danielle Ross & Lucy Yim.
Sound Score: Seth Nehil
Video: Linda Austin & Karl Lind
Lighting: Jeff Forbes
BIO
Linda Austin, co-founder & director of Performance Works NorthWest in Portland, OR, has been making dance and performance since 1983. Her poetic, unconventionally witty, and rigorously conceived works arise from an ongoing fascination with the body’s awkward, lyrical and often accidental beauty. The resultant works have been performed in New York, Mexico City, Seattle and Portland, at venues such as the Danspace Project, PS 122, Movement Research at Judson Church, the Kitchen, On the Boards and PICA’s TBA Festival.
In addition to Fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts and the Oregon Arts Commission, her work has been supported by the Regional Arts & Culture Council, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, and Movement Research, as well as through residencies at Djerassi and Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center. Her writing has appeared in The Movement Research Performance Journal, Tierra Adentro (Mexico), the literary journal FO A RM and a 2003 collection from MIT Press, Women, Art & Technology.
Recent projects include the 2010 Paired Spectacular, an homage to dance pioneers Yvonne Rainer and Deborah Hay; the 2009 Bandage a Knife, a collaboration with Seth Nehil inspired by a Japanese cult noir film; and a 2008 site-specific dance at Portland’s Lovejoy Fountain as part of The City Dance of Anna & Lawrence Halprin, performed in the 2008 TBA Festival. An in-progress version of A head of time and a 6-week installation of this project was featured at The Art Gym in April 2011 as part of an exhibit devoted to the choreographic process titled Dance: before, after, during,
