Last night of this work:
ILLEGAL ECHO/untitled echo
"To dance a falling line of recall...between memory and no memory, spectator and spectre, citizenship and sanity... right, left, forward, backward a new question everyday"
A multimedia dance theatre work by Isak Immanuel(Floor of Sky Projects) with contributions from Robert L. Terrell(photography), Kanoko Nishi(piano), and Odessa Chen(voice)
This work is apart of
CounterPULSE’s Summer 2007 Artists in Residence and also featurees “To Mifune” by Christy Funsch/Funsch Dance Experience, September 6-8.
Two dance theatre works delving into the terrain of fantasy and forgotten identity, taking the stage to navigate the foreign and the everyday familiar in two cutting edge works.
Please help spread the word. See below for details:
WHEN: Thurs.- Sat. Sept 6-8, 8:00pm
Post-show discussion following Thursday performance
WHERE:
CounterPULSE, San Frasncisco
1310 Mission St (@9th)
PRICE: $12-$20, no one turned away for lack of funds
TICKETS: www.brownpapertickets.com or at the door (just come!)
INFO: (415)435-7552, www.counterpulse.org
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ILLEGAL ECHO /untitled echo
Direction and Performance: Isak Immanuel
Including contributions from Robert L. Terrell, Kanoko Nishi, and Odessa Chen
Illegal Echo / untitled echo finds its origin in an excavation of memory, personal and public, and how in this terrain we can find irrepressible connections in the present world of both movement and images. Integrating dance-theater with photojournalism, the work navigates the intersecting landscapes of peripheral identity, transience and the instability of both body and social standing. To dance a falling line of recall. The distances between myth, allusion, and concrete subject, the missing/searching, outsider/insider, and the internal markers to what is one’s said society or place of origin are dually explored through the medium of dance and visual theatre.
The work contains a diverse landscape of sound from the classical to the urban, from noise to silence, featuring vocalist/indy-musician Odessa Chen and classically trained pianist/new music advocate Kanoko Nishi combined with an assemblage of street/field recordings. It will also feature an image to image dialogue with veteran photojournalist Robert L. Terrell.
In part, this new work has been made from the research, distillation, and trace of a two month movement workshop and impromptu writing engaged with local homeless and formerly homeless individuals here in the SF Bay Area. An extension of this work will be exhibited in the lobby gallery space.
Floor of Sky Projects is supported in part by the Zellerbach family fund and is fiscally sponsored by 21 Grand.
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To MIFUNE
By Christy Funsch with K808 and Skorpio
Performed by Glenn Curtis, Leonore Deaton, Christy Funsch, Jennifer A. Minore, Phoenicia Pettyjohn, Noel Rokswel, Sarah Sass, and Skorpio
Inspired by the charismatic Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997), To Mifune tells the story of a cowgirl’s (Christy Funsch) journey to meet her samurai idol (Skorpio). The characters for this work are drawn from Mifune’s roles, as well as from roles in acclaimed Japanese film-maker Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, Stray Dog, and The Seven Samurai. Funsch’s work examines how one’s individuality shifts through interactions with others: movement is borrowed, shared, exchanged, and exaggerated among all of the characters. The protagonist’s idea of who she is changes as her context changes, and by the time she meets the person she thought was her idol, she has come to appreciate the perhaps less grand---though certainly not less admirable---heroics of those she has met on her journey.
Hip-hop DJ K808 mixes live original beats with samples from both Kurosawa’s film Yojimbo and country singer Patsy Montana into a living sound score for the work. The result combines multiple voices with a hip-hop sensibility, which Funsch defines as “an assertion of individuality”. Funsch’s idiosyncratic collection of performers for To Mifune exemplifies her fascination with style as a way of linking the personal with the collective. According to Funsch, “When we create a little truth for ourselves, a way we want to be seen, we are usually seeking empathy. The commonality of this impulse connects us, regardless of the diversity of our movement choices.”
To Mifune is supported in part by the Zellerbach family fund, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Funsch Dance Experience is a fiscally sponsored project of Dancers’ Group
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counterpulse.org
floorofsky.org
funschdaance.org
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ILLEGAL ECHO/untitled echo
"To dance a falling line of recall...between memory and no memory, spectator and spectre, citizenship and sanity... right, left, forward, backward a new question everyday"
A multimedia dance theatre work by Isak Immanuel(Floor of Sky Projects) with contributions from Robert L. Terrell(photography), Kanoko Nishi(piano), and Odessa Chen(voice)
This work is apart of
CounterPULSE’s Summer 2007 Artists in Residence and also featurees “To Mifune” by Christy Funsch/Funsch Dance Experience, September 6-8.
Two dance theatre works delving into the terrain of fantasy and forgotten identity, taking the stage to navigate the foreign and the everyday familiar in two cutting edge works.
Please help spread the word. See below for details:
WHEN: Thurs.- Sat. Sept 6-8, 8:00pm
Post-show discussion following Thursday performance
WHERE:
CounterPULSE, San Frasncisco
1310 Mission St (@9th)
PRICE: $12-$20, no one turned away for lack of funds
TICKETS: www.brownpapertickets.com or at the door (just come!)
INFO: (415)435-7552, www.counterpulse.org
````````
ILLEGAL ECHO /untitled echo
Direction and Performance: Isak Immanuel
Including contributions from Robert L. Terrell, Kanoko Nishi, and Odessa Chen
Illegal Echo / untitled echo finds its origin in an excavation of memory, personal and public, and how in this terrain we can find irrepressible connections in the present world of both movement and images. Integrating dance-theater with photojournalism, the work navigates the intersecting landscapes of peripheral identity, transience and the instability of both body and social standing. To dance a falling line of recall. The distances between myth, allusion, and concrete subject, the missing/searching, outsider/insider, and the internal markers to what is one’s said society or place of origin are dually explored through the medium of dance and visual theatre.
The work contains a diverse landscape of sound from the classical to the urban, from noise to silence, featuring vocalist/indy-musician Odessa Chen and classically trained pianist/new music advocate Kanoko Nishi combined with an assemblage of street/field recordings. It will also feature an image to image dialogue with veteran photojournalist Robert L. Terrell.
In part, this new work has been made from the research, distillation, and trace of a two month movement workshop and impromptu writing engaged with local homeless and formerly homeless individuals here in the SF Bay Area. An extension of this work will be exhibited in the lobby gallery space.
Floor of Sky Projects is supported in part by the Zellerbach family fund and is fiscally sponsored by 21 Grand.
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To MIFUNE
By Christy Funsch with K808 and Skorpio
Performed by Glenn Curtis, Leonore Deaton, Christy Funsch, Jennifer A. Minore, Phoenicia Pettyjohn, Noel Rokswel, Sarah Sass, and Skorpio
Inspired by the charismatic Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997), To Mifune tells the story of a cowgirl’s (Christy Funsch) journey to meet her samurai idol (Skorpio). The characters for this work are drawn from Mifune’s roles, as well as from roles in acclaimed Japanese film-maker Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, Stray Dog, and The Seven Samurai. Funsch’s work examines how one’s individuality shifts through interactions with others: movement is borrowed, shared, exchanged, and exaggerated among all of the characters. The protagonist’s idea of who she is changes as her context changes, and by the time she meets the person she thought was her idol, she has come to appreciate the perhaps less grand---though certainly not less admirable---heroics of those she has met on her journey.
Hip-hop DJ K808 mixes live original beats with samples from both Kurosawa’s film Yojimbo and country singer Patsy Montana into a living sound score for the work. The result combines multiple voices with a hip-hop sensibility, which Funsch defines as “an assertion of individuality”. Funsch’s idiosyncratic collection of performers for To Mifune exemplifies her fascination with style as a way of linking the personal with the collective. According to Funsch, “When we create a little truth for ourselves, a way we want to be seen, we are usually seeking empathy. The commonality of this impulse connects us, regardless of the diversity of our movement choices.”
To Mifune is supported in part by the Zellerbach family fund, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Funsch Dance Experience is a fiscally sponsored project of Dancers’ Group
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counterpulse.org
floorofsky.org
funschdaance.org
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