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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Post-performance Interviews: Installment 11
To view a higher quality version of this video, please visit our HERE/NOWtv channel.
The Post-performance Interviews video journal series is based exclusively on asking participants and audience members to "say a few words about your experience at HERE/NOW". Honest, insightful, gracious and at times humorous, the thoughts captured on-camera never fail to engage.
Friday, December 16, 2011
HERE/NOW: Installment 11 review on SeattleDances blogsite
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Thanks!
Christopher & Paige
Creative Directors | Curators
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Installment 11 (12/10/11)
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Pictured above standing (l to r) are Ryan "COHOSH" Converse, Brysen "Just B" Angeles, Karen Nelson, Dave Proscia, Tari Nelson-Zagar, Salo, Dennis Rea and Marissa Rae Niederhauser and sitting (l to r) are Vanessa Skantze, Sarah Lustbader, Lorraine Siu Lin Lau, Neil Welch, Natalie Mai Hall, Robert Tyree, Pearson Wallace-Hoyt and Naomi Russell.
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In no particularly particular order:
1. There was a large graffiti tag on the building that plainly read "OCCUPY THE NORTH POLE" and I think the bad-music-toting Santas meant it.
2. I had a bomb of a precise realization just about punch me in the face at some point during the second or third duet: HERE/NOW truly celebrates the gifts of "the individual" in the context of "the group".
3. That realization and its connotations feels very... American. And I think I'm somewhere between mystified and proud about that.
4. "Wow... did that just happen?!" X at least 16.
5. Someone was early. Someone was late. Everyone was on time.
6. Tears. As usual. Which can make "working the lights" very challenging.
7. Spacetimelessness. As usual. Which can make "working the lights" very challenging.
8. Happy that we have committed to full color printed programs.
9. Too much talent for such a diminutive number of square feet.
10. Tell me where all the other art-based events are that focus on Celebration as well as Art and Craft... name them, and I go. (please see one of my favorite animated short films, Creature Comforts, for line reference.)
11. How is it possible that we always sell more beverages in December than in June?
12. Another packed house. Thanks, Seattle.
13. To Olympia to pick up two Musicians. Back from Olympia. Back to Olympia to drop off two Musicians. Back from Olympia. I think I might've just doubled my total number of visits to Olympia. (Kidding.)
14. Excited about the sociocultural potential of the Post-performance Interviews video journal series that we now shoot at the end of each evening.
15. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.
16. I love creating the group portrait. Photographing all sixteen participants, eight standing and eight sitting, feels so innocent and simple... like a 3rd grade class photo for a pre-digital yearbook... questionable sweaters and all.
17. Did Marissa RAE Niederhauser (D) and Dennis REA (M) really get paired together? Only at HERE/NOW... only at HERE/NOW, folks.
18. PDX in tha house! (When I was much younger, I once explained to my mother what "in tha house" meant. She began using it whenever possible. And she pulled it off, bless her heart. Which is a phrase she once explained to me. I still have problems pulling it off.)
19. Christin Call was kind enough to review this installment on the SeattleDances blogsite. See the above post for the link.
~ Christopher
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The evening's duets in chronological order:
1. Brysen "Just B" Angeles (D) + Dave Proscia (M)
2. Vanessa Skantze (D) + Salo (M)
3. Sarah Lustbader (D) + Ryan "COHOSH" Converse (M)
4. Robert Tyree (D) + Neil Welch (M)
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5. Karen Nelson (D) + Natalie Mai Hall (M)
6. Marissa Rae Niederhauser (D) + Dennis Rea (M)
7. Naomi Russell (D) + Tari Nelson-Zagar (M)
8. Lorraine Siu Lin Lau (D) + Pearson Wallace-Hoyt (M)
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If you attended this installment, please take a minute and share your thoughts. What did you feel was the most engaging moment of the evening? Whose duet resonated with you the most? How did you hear about HERE/NOW and why did you feel as if you wanted to attend? Were you familiar with any of the participants? Did the evening serve as a catalyst for discussion amongst friends?
Thanks!
Christopher & Paige
Creative Directors | Curators
Sunday, November 20, 2011
DVD - Installment 10 - NOW AVAILABLE!
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If you have a friend or family member who is a fan of Dance or Music you should consider gifting them one or more of the HERE/NOW DVDs. They serve as living proof that very, very good things have the propensity to occur when one Dancer and one Musician are randomly paired and given eight minutes to improvise together, and also as an ever-expanding historical archive documenting the region's Dance and Music communities.
They are respectably packaged and authored and come with complete program concept information, contact/credit information, outtakes, Post-performance Interviews (starting with Installment 10) a group portrait with the names of all sixteen participants and, of course, all eight improvised duets titled and chapterized making it easy to jump to specific performances or view the entire evening in chronological order. They also feature the evenings' printed programs (starting with Installment 3) highlighting who was paired with whom. One part bio, one part interview, the printed programs are uniquely insightful and a direct reflection of the working goals of HERE/NOW.
We've tried very hard to make sure the DVDs have features that resonate with fans of Dance and Music and we're always trying to invent ways to make them even more engaging. We've also tried very hard to make sure that our asking price ($16 + shipping costs if applicable) is reasonable, affordable and fair. (Note: all DVDs receive free shipping if being mailed to a destination within the continental US.)
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Thanks!
Christopher & Paige
Creative Directors | Curators
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