lily [bloom in my darkness] & LUNG

Karin Stevens Dance presents an evening of two works in collaboration with award-winning composer/sound artist Kaley Lane Eaton: a reproduction of the award-winning lily [bloom in my darkness] and the premiere of LUNG. Together these pieces explore issues of migration, connection, and finding one's voice in the world today.

Featuring live music composed by Kaley Lane Eaton performed by Kin of the Moon and Strange Interlude, with guest movement & sound artist The Indigo/Amelia Love Clearheart.

lily [bloom in my darkness] is a 35-minute electroacoustic opera for voice, live electronic processing, pulse sensors, violas, saxophone doubling clarinet, harp, and dance, with an original libretto by poet Felicia Klingenberg. Lily explores the psyche and heart of Lily Isabel Bunny, an orphan who fled England at the start of WWI. Through imagining a dream Lily may have had her first night sleeping in a cabin in the Pacific Northwest wilderness, this work examines her transformation upon entering a new world, exploring the experience of migration and displacement uniting our species.

LUNG is a collaborative work for dancers, musicians (bass flute, tenor saxophone, concert harp, two violas, and trumpet), six loudspeakers, and audience exploring the process of finding ones voice as both individuals and communities. Loudspeakers punctuate the space, laid out as a room-sized version of the respiratory system. Musicians and dancers move through the space as breath moves through the body when preparing to speak, and the audience is invited to follow, experiencing sounds from a variety of perspectives.

Stevens and Eaton seek to unlock the voices of the marginalized to tell the true stories of our time for posterity. Through both personal experience and observations of society, they understand that the voice can get caught deep in the lungs, never to escape and proclaim itself. But when the winning breath is taken with help from those around us the voice explodes in ecstasy, telling lost stories, and freeing the body.

Tickets:
Student/Senior – $20 
General – $25
KSD Fan – $35 (Perk: reserved seating) 
KSD & Original Sound Advocate – $50 (Perk: reserved seating + special thank you shout out)

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.

About Kin of the Moon

Kin of the Moon is composers Kaley Lane Eaton (voice, piano, electronics), Heather Bentley (viola, cello, violin), and Leanna Keith (flutes). The group explores sonic rituals, promotes cross-pollination of genres, emphasizes the communicative power of specific performance locales and celebrates the creativity that multiplies itself through the collaboration of performers and composers. The artists of Kin of the Moon devote their lives to reaching higher vibrational levels through sound creation.