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Secret Streams
and other works - Kinodance
Fri, July 22, 8PM
Sat, July 23, 8PM
Sun, July 24, 2PM

Tickets:
Online at Smarttix.com
Cash or Check only at the Door

Daniels Art Center at Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, MA
Directions
Secret Streams is an intermedia performance exposing the alchemical connection between people and environment. Formally, the piece investigates the essence of motion – the unifying power between dance, film and kinetic sculpture. It gestures to the fragmentary nature of memory and the ephemeral nature of motion while imprinting time through pure embodiment. The title Secret Streams is inspired by the spiritual writings of esoteric philosopher Rudolf Steiner.

Audiences describe Secret Streams as "hypnotic", "vivid", "emotional", an "environmental mirage" inhabited by two exceptional dancers.

Secret Streams was created through an intensive collaborative process between artists with no director. The aesthetic of the dance is influenced by Cardone's experiences in Japanese Butoh. Improvisational instinct and choreographic rigor mingle as lush movement meets dynamic phrasing. Film projections by Alla Kovgan explore the possibilities of combining elements and techniques of dance filmmaking with live dance. The kinetic set by Dedalus Wainwright destroys the flatness and 2-dimensionality of projection surfaces. The lighting design by Kathy Couch merges visual boundaries and unifies space. The sound score by Seth Barger uses contrasting tones and textures to create extra dimensions for the dance, projections, and ultimately, for the viewers' imagination. Secret Streams premiered at the St. Petersburg International Dance Film Festival in Russia, in November 2004.

Kinodance presents a section of its new work-in-progress evening-length performance Denizen. Denizen is both a character and a form exploring the holographic nature of the world where one gesture holds the whole of an experience. It is a human dweller, an animal and a plant that has become naturalized. It is also a shape, a pattern or a movement that shifts states of existence. The work, both formally and metaphorically, explores a constant human need and desire to inhabit and abandon surrounding spaces. The work taps into the complexity of co-existence between man-made and earth-provided and utilizes movement, organic materials and video/computer technologies to investigate the two. Denizen creates a world where images find fragile footing on raining objects; where a body part becomes larger than life; where time is skewed; where the heroism of every day actions is revealed.