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Blue
Planet Blues
Choreographer: Anthony Gongora In this dance theater piece nine dancers travel through the tragic landscape of war. This dance uses spoken word and startling dance images which captivate its audience. The performers attempt to remember the devastation of war. It is as if their memories were blurred through time, eventually fading into forgetting. Like being in dream and out of control the dancers try to remember but only dark fragments return to their consciousness. Dancers: Wendell Cooper, Kerry Joyce, JJ Kovacevich, Julia Nebrija, Alexis Mastromichalis, Sarah Naegelin, Natalie Shriber, Joe Venti Music: Sound design with fragments of contemporary music by Elton John, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Bijork, Chris Peak and the Dixie Chicks with noise designed by Anthony Gongora Costume Design:
Anthony Gongora and Elizabeth Groth From High Walls
to Open Doors Dancers: Meggie Baker, Candace Gessin, Christin Goelz, Nikki Hollander, Kristi Shimabukuro, Jen Stimmel, Polly Thibodeau, Mary Tisa Music: An original score of drum and bass To be ultimately removed…a limited concept…allowing both performers and audience members to create and respond…to inform and be informed…to begin to approach the idea…on a thematic level as well as through a shared kinetic experience…where in dance can verbal language be found…this is my inspiration…this is my purpose. Transfiguration
#3: Red Dancers: Jennifer Caulk, Christina Conley, Liz Denniston, Sarah Halzack, JJ Kovacevich, Natalie Shriber Music: A Mark Isham composition and original voice recording of Daniela Wancier, Priya Kirpalani, Carolina Zaragovia and Veronica Zaragovia. Red is the most
joyful and dreadful thing in the physical universe; it is the fiercest
note, it is the highest light, it is the place where the walls of this
world of ours wear the thinnest and something beyond burns through."
Snapshots: Life
Within Studio Walls This piece was formed out of a desire to explain the innermost workings of the dancer's life in the studio–where creativity, passion and concentration become tainted with personal stories. Dancers: Katia Chupashko, Talia Mamone, Tracy Marion, Julia Nebrija (understudy) Cathryn Paine, Daniela Wancier Music: Selections from Unkle The walls within the dancer’s studio hold a mysterious, yet inspiring history. The studio is a place of comfort, where we can allow ourselves to drop the baggage that strains our bodies and release emotional toxins. We create new work, new movement and eventually a new history there. The time spent in building J has had a tremendous impact on my life as an artist. I will miss the space, but most of all, I will miss the artists within it. Plantation, Hawaii Dancers: Jennifer Caulk, Katia Chupashko, Liz Denniston, Sarah Halzack, Nikki Hollander, Thomas Ling, Catherine Paine, Kristi Shimabukuro, Mary Tisa Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto and Aaron Leitko, vocalist Jamie Chon. For my family who immigrated to Hawaii in 1903 from Korea and worked the pineapple plantations for three generations. What About the
Last Time? Performers: Wendell Cooper, Jen Kovacevich, Anna Meyer, Kendall Murano, Blayr Nias, Nicholette Routhier, Joe Venti, Daniela Wancier Music: Composed by Mike Vargas. Remix by Katie Buechner and Wendy Woodson
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