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reveries and elegies is Mary Armentrout's new site specific
performance project - a shifting, wandering installation that is trying to deal
with a shifting, ungraspable subject: change, loss, dislocation
life is so strange, life is so strange - it's always changing and always staying
the same
I promise the show will be different every night
I promise the show will be special every night
I promise that you won't see ALL the shows (even if you come to each and every one)
(life is so strange, life is so strange)
-you WANT to be in control
-you WANT to have it all
(you secretly yearn to run into the fact that you're not in control at all)
(you secretly yearn to be released into the knowledge that life is ungraspable - not only
by everyone else, but also by you)
8 shows interspersed throughout December 2012, January 2013, and February 2013
popping up at four different locations throughout the Bay Area
always starting about an hour before sunset
-December 1st and 2nd, 2012, at 4pm, at the Milkbar at the Sunshine Biscuit
Factory, 851 81st Ave, Oakland
-December 22nd and 23rd, 2012, at 4pm, at Interface Gallery, 486 49th
Street, Oakland
-January 12th and 13th, 2013, at 4:15pm, at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission
Street, San Francisco
-February 23rd and 24th, 2013, at 3:30pm, at senseofplace LAB : Baker
Beach, meeting at the north parking lot of Baker Beach at 3:30pm
NOTE: since this show happens in conjunction with sundown, show times are a little wacky and very specific, all shows start promptly at their start times, and the spaces will be open a half hour before the show start time
featuring Erin Malley, Merlin Coleman, Ann DiFruscia, Alanna Kelly, Christy Funsch, Carmen Fischer, Rodney Johnson, and Antonio Ortiz
sound by Pamela Z and Evelyn Ficarra
video by Ian Winters
tickets: $20
seating is VERY limited and shows will sell out - get your tickets early!
tickets only thru Eventbrite - no tickets at the door
informal reception always on after the show - eats and drinks
post-show discussion with the artists on Saturday, January 12th at CounterPULSE
more info: call 510 289 5188
also, as this is a show that happens in winter in the bay area, and we will
be outside at sunset for each show, it MAY rain on us! I will look forward to
this occurrence. Please come dressed for wandering outside in wintertime -
walking shoes, warm clothes, UMBRELLAS if needed...
get your tickets here
find directions to all the spaces here
read Heather Desaulniers' fantastic review here
or Rita Felciano's great pick in SF Bay Guardian here
read Jim Tobin's "Choreographer of the Month" preview here
and read the full press release here
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- is Mary Armentrout's acclaimed "solo" show that explodes both the notion of self-identity and the usual proscenium model of dance theater - meaning it is both a site specific performance installation in and around the old Sunshine Biscuit Factory in Oakland, as well as an autobiographical "solo" show with three other people playing also playing the title role, since this is a self that can't be kept in one piece. -
This show has now had two sold out runs at the Biscuit Factory, and has got me a nomination for an Izzy (the bay area's Isadora Duncan Dance Awards) for choreography. Yeah. Not too bad!
However, I am feeling like this show could tour - perhaps we could sell out shows in other places too! - and even though there are some unusual considerations because of the site-specific aspects of the piece, I think it could map onto many different locations with great success.
So, here is my current wish for "woman invisible" - I will find another large (or small) industrial site/ theater spot in New York City, or Chicago, or Seattle, or Portland, or your town! where I will be able to create a new embodiment of this piece. If you have any thoughts in this direction, I would love to hear them!
read the great SFBG Weekly Pick by Rita Felciano
or the great first review by Heather Desaulniers of Critical Dance
or the great second review by Heather Desaulniers of Critical Dance
or the lovely write up in the SF Chronicle
plus the Staff Pick in the East Bay Express
or the second Staff Pick in the East Bay Express
or the Top Emotional Dance Moment pick at Jim Tobin's Bay Area Dance Watch
and read the full press release here