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Offsite & Insight Liz Lerman Dance Exchange In association with The DC Improvisation Festival September 27-30th, 2007
Performers: Martha Wittman, Thomas Dwyer, Shula Strassfeld Conception and Direction: Cassie Meador Watch Video Performance One site holds the view and possibilities of another site. A body identifies itself and its dwelling place counting the years, its history, in the remembered lines of a smile or furrowed brow, layers of strata, rings of growth, and turning pages. They all have a story to tell. DC Improvisation Festival Brings Site-Specific Performances to Downtown The 13th Annual DC Improvisation Festival presents four days of site specific dance, music and performance art in public spaces in downtown Washington, DC. Festival performances will take place on G Street, NW, between 7th and 12th streets, on September 27-30, 2007. For a schedule of events visit www.improvfestival.com. All events are free and fully accessible to the public. The festival is held in association with the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities’ Dance DC Festival.
Bibliography
Edlin, Herbert. Nimmo Maurice. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trees: Timbers and Forest of the World. Salamander Books Ltd, 1978. Logan, William Bryant. Dirt, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1995. Lambert, David. The Field Guide to Geology, Diagram Visual Information Ltd. 1998 Mitchell, Alan. The Trees of North America, Fact on File, Inc. 1987. Special Thanks: to Amanda Abrams and the DC Improvisation Festival, Tracy Hall and the Staff at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, and the Dance Exchange staff and company for their partnerships in making this video. When Amanda Abrams contacted the Dance Exchange with an interest in the company participating in the 13th Annual DC Improvisation Festival I was thrilled for the opportunity but soon came to discover that the company would be on tour during the time of the festival. Initially I thought this meant the company would not be able to participate. Sometimes though when you hit a wall you bounce off and get to reevaluate...The challenges and reevaluation led us to build a new structure for presenting work where several ideas had an opportunity to converge. Offsite & Insight has allowed us to launch the first video on the Dance Exchange website, to find new ways of building our local presence in the midst of a heavy touring schedule, and to hopefully make the festival accessible to those who may not have the opportunity or ability make it onsite at the festival. In my five years at the Dance Exchange I have had the opportunity to live in the worlds of both community and concert work. At times these worlds hold their own place but more often they find ways of overlapping and supporting one another. The company fills theatre seats during performances but we also leave the theatre to meet people in and out of their own seats in classrooms, shipyards, offices, science labs…My training and interest in site specific work has grown from creating work and performing with people in these places. As choreographer you learn to adapt what you bring to a place and how to build from the unexpected encounters a particular place or group people have to offer. There are many opportunities at the Dance Exchange this season to engage in the exploration of site specific work. We are gathering performers, choreographers, writers, visual artist, architects…for an institute and performance at the Takoma Park Community Center during their 1st annual Arts and Humanities Day. To participate and find out about other opportunities at The Dance Exchange visit us online at www.danceexchange.org |
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