James Ray Residency Project – Program B with Karin Stevens Dance
$25 ($18 student)
Karin Stevens Dance presents two works. Created in 2019/2020, and featuring improvisational music by Kin of the Moon, A Small Space of Wildness was choreographed from Steven's improvisational practice with her backyard landscape in winter and summer. The work is an extension of Steven's ongoing interest in the human body and the greater ecology. Premiering on the SIDF 2023 stage, Parts of the Whole, with original music by Kin of the Moon, explores the parts within us that make the whole of ourselves and our relationships; the emotions under the surface, the many internal parts that we are.
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/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.
https://kinofthemoon.org/