Karin Stevens Dance: (Re)MOVE: Back Toward Again The (Re)TURN Facing
$25-$30
An evening of dance and live music ventures into personal and feminist injustices of the earth and the female body, with original compositions by Michael Owcharuk, Nate Omdal, and the internationally-recognized Wayne Horvitz.
Full of turbulent exchanges, (re) MOVE: (re) TURN pulls from thousands of years of scientific, philosophical, and spiritual writing on connections between women and the earth. Within the expansive and driving string quartet movements, including Owcharuk's Upward Spiral, written specifically for Karin Stevens Dance with support from 4Culture and Horvitzs, and These Hills of Glory, winner of a 2008 NEA American Masterpieces Award, five female dancers weave patterns of separation and alliance, drawing connections between our bodies and the lands we inhabit. Chinese Five Element theory, mythical and mystical stories of the divine female, and the current denigration of the female voice, inform the choreography. This unfolding, evening-length collaboration evokes ancient and forgotten truths as a call to action. Can a loving change be recovered?
Musicians:
Paris Hurley and Alex Guy (violins)
Heather Bentley, viola
Maria Scherer Wilson, cello
Nate Omdal, bass
Beth Fleenor, clarinet
Michael Owcharuk, piano
Dancers:
Naphtali Beyleveld
Philippa Myler
Taylor Augustine
Anja Kellner-Rogers
Karin Stevens
About Karin Stevens Dance
Karin Stevens Dance (KSD) believes that dance is a radical, vital art key to our future in this 21st Century. KSD's contemporary dance artworks strive for beauty through richly textured patterns that embody the complex, turbulent layers of our time, our cultural spaces, and our relationship to environments. We advocate for live, local, new music, partnering and collaborating with musicians and composers. We re/connect us to our bodily selves, to each other and to the greater ecologies of our collective dance. Our work embraces the mystery, suffering, wonder, and bewilderment in our interdependent existence through re/imagination, transformation, and healing for our collective well-being.
http://karinstevensdance.com/