modern dance monday with zoe/juniper

A Crack in Everything

photo Yi Chun Wu

A Crack in Everything

A Crack in Everything

zoe/juniper is a duo team of Juniper Shuey and Zoe Scofield.  My sights have been on their work.  Their resonance into our performance atmosphere is electric.  I have posted what they say about the collaboration:
"Our company is driven by the idea of mythologizing the experience of our senses; creating performances and visual art that challenge the viewer's perception of time and perspective as well as allowing our work's intention to be spacious enough for empathetic experiences to emerge.  Our work realizes and exists in the state of liminality- the sense of being 'in-between'.  By working across different disciplines, we filter our sensual experiences into the mediums that best embodies a facet of the myth our overall concept is based on.  Our current project A Crack in Everything (ACIE) is a meditation on the moments that divide people's lives into before and after.  This project spans dance performance, photography and sculptural video and performance installation.  Within these, we are designing experiences that all maintain the idea of liminality; the thresholds of conscious/unconscious, action/reaction, before/after and cause/effect.  While this idea of mythologizing serves as the trajectory of our work, our concerns are with relaying non-linear "story-ness", originating and distilling significance from rigorous physicality, calibrating the dialogue between the mediums in which we work and literally creating tangible artifacts from the performance within the installation and calcified memories within the photography."

Dance must be seen for words are merely an alphabet for our eyes.  I encourage you to keep your ears to the ground for this march of the hares.  They recently had a residency with On The Boards which landed BeginAgain.

Juniper Shuey and Zoe Scofield

Zoe Scofield

BeginAgain

BeginAgain

body movement tuesday :: the tomorrow collective

The Tomorrow Collective
formed in 2005 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.  The collective was formed by dance artists Mara Branscombe, Katy Harris McLeod and Jennifer McLeish Lewis.  The collective is now run by Mara and Katy.  Together they continue the work of the collective which is to produce, promote, create and perform new dance and multidisciplinary work.  The Tomorrow Collective is responsible for the creation and production of the popular interdisciplinary performance series Brief Encounters.

Brief Encounters is about the mixing of mediums and the crossing of artistic cultures.  The collective created this event out of an interest in cross pollination between art forms, audience education and the excitement of creation under the gun.  The result is the creation and performance of cutting edge collaborative work between artists who had likely not previously met, let alone worked together.  The pieces that emerge from the Brief Encounters pairings fuse, cross over, interrupt and co create new perspectives on artistic forms and the relationships between them.  To date, The Tomorrow Collective has produced 156 different artists in Vancouver over the 14 installments of Brief Encounters, as well as 10 artists in Nanaimo.

body movement tuesday :: the seldoms

Dan Merlo




The Seldoms
"The Seldoms make contemporary dance that translates inquiry into 
movement and amplifies its impact through collaboration with image, 
sound, text and location, providing an avenue for audiences to 
experience relevant and engaging dance.  We are a Chicago based 
dance performance company that values making intelligent, visual 
dance theater driven by inquiry.  We ground our inquiry in the history 
of ideas, art history, and our personal experience to find complex and
faceted ways to describe the nature of our question."

"The center of our work is dance, however, our vision extends to the 
whole of action and environment on stage."