2 unique programs in 2 distinct settings on 2 different weekends: Watch From Here presents new contemporary choreography by Master of Fine Arts candidates Rachel Barker, Tammy Carrasco, Megan Davis, Ani Javian, and Mihwa Koo. Each artist explores her singular voice through the integration of choreography with visual art, improvisation, and landscape.
WATCH FROM HERE Part I
Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St.
Thursday, February 5: 6:00pm Reception, 7:00pm Performance
Friday, February 6: 6:00pm Performance
Saturday, February 7: 1:00pm Performance
Choreographers: Megan Davis and Ani Javian
Free admission.
In Elsewhere, choreographer Ani Javian explores seclusion and detachment, asking "How does dislocation effect spirit? Intimate seating along the runway-shaped stage places audiences close to the performance, contrasting the work's emotional distance. Collaborators include NYC-based sound-designer James Lo and local visual artist Leah Frankel. Through an integration of materials—the dancing body, art objects, and film—Trace Forms, performed by a quartet of dancers and choreographed by Megan Davis, finds intersections in the visual and performing arts, bridging distinct forms in both process and product.
WATCH FROM HERE Part II
Sullivant Hall, Barnett Theatre
Thursday, February 19 - Saturday, February 21 at 8:00pm
plus Saturday matinee at 3:00pm
Choreographers: Rachel Barker, Tammy Carrasco, and Mihwa Koo
Tickets are available through the Ohio State Theatre Box Office, 614-292-2295, or online at http://theatre.osu.edu/boxoffice/dancetickets
In her solo, Silt, choreographer Rachel Barker transforms the Barnett Theater with video projection and an installation by local artist Leah Frankel. Challenging herself to live in the memories of her Utah surroundings while simultaneously experiencing her new fabricated environment, Barker invites her audience along for the ride. Les Fauves (The Wild Beasts), choreographed by Tammy Carrasco, marks the passage of time through a series of immersive events. Virtuosic, quirky, intimate and impersonal, Les Fauves features three distinct dancers who arrive at the dance as if discovering it for the first time. Through Laminated Glass, Mihwa Koo explores the duet form to investigate the intersection between dance and identity. By juxtaposing individual styles, this dance illuminates different body histories and illustrates how they negotiate Koo’s artistic style. It is a collaborative work developed from Koo’s choreographic method of “individualization” in which dancers reinvent choreographer’s movements to exist in their own movement vocabulary.
Two unique events in both a downtown and uptown setting provide audiences the opportunity to Watch From Here in the Urban Arts Space Gallery and the Sullivant Hall Barnett Theater.
Tickets are available through the Ohio State Theatre Box Office 614-292-2295, or online at http://theatre.osu.edu/boxoffice/dancetickets
Photo: Hana Newfeld