Sister Bay Beach Pavilion Performance
A Delicate Hand (excerpt)
Choreography: Michael Estanich
Performance: Cheryl Cornacchione, Lucy Vurusic Riner, Michael Estanich, and kt williams
Music: Original Composition by Mark Burns
Program Note:Created in collaboration with Artistic Director Michael Estanich and the company of six dancers, A Delicate Hand is an abstract reflection of connection, relationship, and nearness. Grounded in the examination of the ecosystems in our lives, the work considers both the macro (fate, destiny, human impact) and the micro (touch, impulse, guidelines) as systems that affect our choice making. A Delicate Hand highlights the unrelenting and ever flowing propulsion of bodies through space and time. The dancers attune themselves to varying timelines of intensive physical dancing, athletic partnering, and deeply intimate connections. An installation of delicate light towers frames the dancing and creates an otherworldy environment with an original sound score composed by Mark Burns.
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Performance: Cheryl Cornacchione, Lucy Vurusic Riner, Michael Estanich, and kt williams
Music: Original Composition by Mark Burns
Program Note:Created in collaboration with Artistic Director Michael Estanich and the company of six dancers, A Delicate Hand is an abstract reflection of connection, relationship, and nearness. Grounded in the examination of the ecosystems in our lives, the work considers both the macro (fate, destiny, human impact) and the micro (touch, impulse, guidelines) as systems that affect our choice making. A Delicate Hand highlights the unrelenting and ever flowing propulsion of bodies through space and time. The dancers attune themselves to varying timelines of intensive physical dancing, athletic partnering, and deeply intimate connections. An installation of delicate light towers frames the dancing and creates an otherworldy environment with an original sound score composed by Mark Burns.
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Ellas y Yo Mexicanas: Juana Ines
Choreography: Silvita Diaz Brown of Sildance/AcroDanza
Performance: Ileana Nadine Mauricio, Derek Quesada, Daniele Oblitas & Silvita Diaz Brown
Music: Chromabeats: Wiebe Ophorst and Marshall Greenhouse
Program Note: Frida Kahlo and Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz and how they connect to my own journey as Mexican female artists are inspiring my current dance-research project “Ellas Y Yo Mexicanas” (Them and I Mexicans.) These are two historic Mexican women who were able to break away from external and internalized colonialist and marianismo expectations and power dynamics. Juana Ines De la Cruz: a Mexican criolla feminist writer, philosopher, and composer of the 17th century is considered the first feminist of the Americas. She chose the life of a cloistered nun to access education and freedom to study at a time of colonialist religious authoritarianism when education was denied to women, and ended up creating a vast body of work unlimited by genre or gender. Tonight you will witness an excerpt of Juana Inés' dance section from Ellas y Yo Mexicanas triptych work. “ No estudio para saber más, sino para ignorar menos.” (I don't study to know more but to ignore less.) Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.
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Performance: Ileana Nadine Mauricio, Derek Quesada, Daniele Oblitas & Silvita Diaz Brown
Music: Chromabeats: Wiebe Ophorst and Marshall Greenhouse
Program Note: Frida Kahlo and Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz and how they connect to my own journey as Mexican female artists are inspiring my current dance-research project “Ellas Y Yo Mexicanas” (Them and I Mexicans.) These are two historic Mexican women who were able to break away from external and internalized colonialist and marianismo expectations and power dynamics. Juana Ines De la Cruz: a Mexican criolla feminist writer, philosopher, and composer of the 17th century is considered the first feminist of the Americas. She chose the life of a cloistered nun to access education and freedom to study at a time of colonialist religious authoritarianism when education was denied to women, and ended up creating a vast body of work unlimited by genre or gender. Tonight you will witness an excerpt of Juana Inés' dance section from Ellas y Yo Mexicanas triptych work. “ No estudio para saber más, sino para ignorar menos.” (I don't study to know more but to ignore less.) Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.
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Hey Mom! Watch This.
Choreography: Rachel Molinaro
Performance: Maria Theodore, Michael O’Neill & Rachel Molinaro
Music: Nacio Herb Brown, Nightriders
Program Note: Dedicated to Mom - my very first dance audience and critic
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Performance: Maria Theodore, Michael O’Neill & Rachel Molinaro
Music: Nacio Herb Brown, Nightriders
Program Note: Dedicated to Mom - my very first dance audience and critic
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Listen (excerpt)
Choreography & Performance: Emma Draves & Andy Slavin
Music: Barry Bennett (original music); with Tiny Vipers, Room of Wires, Christopher Dexter Greenspan
Program Note: “Listen...” mines the physical fracturing which results from the struggle to participate in spaces we are not necessarily welcome into but must take part in. Our personal experiences are subtext for weaving the narrative of this work which manifests from efforts to find stability in risk, aggressive viscerality, and rituals of comfort viewed through critical feminist and queer lenses.
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Music: Barry Bennett (original music); with Tiny Vipers, Room of Wires, Christopher Dexter Greenspan
Program Note: “Listen...” mines the physical fracturing which results from the struggle to participate in spaces we are not necessarily welcome into but must take part in. Our personal experiences are subtext for weaving the narrative of this work which manifests from efforts to find stability in risk, aggressive viscerality, and rituals of comfort viewed through critical feminist and queer lenses.
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I haven't Gone There
Choreography: Shirley Mordine
Performance: Danielle Gilmore, Emily Stepleton and Melissa Pillarella
Music: Music composed by Mark Messing, performed by the Mucca Pazza marching band. Text and spoken work by Bryan Saner
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Performance: Danielle Gilmore, Emily Stepleton and Melissa Pillarella
Music: Music composed by Mark Messing, performed by the Mucca Pazza marching band. Text and spoken work by Bryan Saner
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Pique
Choreography & Performance: Elena Santiago
Music: Ezio Bosso- The Mind on the (Re)Wind
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Music: Ezio Bosso- The Mind on the (Re)Wind
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Fetch (excerpt)
Choreography: Chloe Grace Michels
Performance: Sydney Osborne, Umi Nakamura, Michael O'Neil, Chloe Grace Michels
Music: Radiohead; additional sound design from Andy Slavin
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Performance: Sydney Osborne, Umi Nakamura, Michael O'Neil, Chloe Grace Michels
Music: Radiohead; additional sound design from Andy Slavin
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Bluebird Pas de Deux from Sleeping Beauty & Dulcinea solo from Don Quixote
Choreography: Marius Pepita
Performance: Isabella Graves and Emery Meroni: Bluebird & Roxy Slavin: Dulcinea
Music: Bluebird: P. Tchaikovsky and Dulcinea: Ludwig Minkus
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Performance: Isabella Graves and Emery Meroni: Bluebird & Roxy Slavin: Dulcinea
Music: Bluebird: P. Tchaikovsky and Dulcinea: Ludwig Minkus
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Faded Billboards (Relatable)
Choreography & Performance: Emily Loar + Ali Lorenz
Music: Khruangbin, Meitei, Pinegrove
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Music: Khruangbin, Meitei, Pinegrove
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Afro Shim Sham
Performance & Choreography: Paté Patrice Nassalang
Music: “Lightly and Politely” by Earl Hines and His Orchestra
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Music: “Lightly and Politely” by Earl Hines and His Orchestra
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ciclos
Choreography: Gabriela Chavez for The Seldoms
Performance: Damon D. Green, Haley Marcin
Music: Lyzbeth Badaraco and Jenny Villafuerte
Program Note: "ciclos" is rooted in Gabriela's personal grief journey serving as a testament to the continuous exploration and adaptation towards healing and transformation. It is a movement dialogue centered around exploring emotions such as numbness, anger, and chaos as a means of understanding and acceptance. Through this exploration, she redefines vulnerability as a form of strength. "ciclos" advocates for embracing and transforming difficult emotions as a pathway to resilience and rebirth. Gabriela and her dancers embarked on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment through the acknowledgement and transformation of their emotional landscape.
*ciclos is commissioned by The Seldoms.
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Performance: Damon D. Green, Haley Marcin
Music: Lyzbeth Badaraco and Jenny Villafuerte
Program Note: "ciclos" is rooted in Gabriela's personal grief journey serving as a testament to the continuous exploration and adaptation towards healing and transformation. It is a movement dialogue centered around exploring emotions such as numbness, anger, and chaos as a means of understanding and acceptance. Through this exploration, she redefines vulnerability as a form of strength. "ciclos" advocates for embracing and transforming difficult emotions as a pathway to resilience and rebirth. Gabriela and her dancers embarked on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment through the acknowledgement and transformation of their emotional landscape.
*ciclos is commissioned by The Seldoms.
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Return to Water
Choreography & Performance: Kerensa DeMars
Music: Vocals by Marina Heredia, percussion and soundscape by Paquito González and Andy Miller
Program Note: Return to Water is the first work in the 'Elementals' series, a collection of Flamenco works that draw inspiration from the fundamental forces of nature. The natural elements figure prominently in Flamenco poetry and nature’s raw power and untamed spirit resonate with the urgent expression of Flamenco. Return to Water brings forth the beauty that emerges when the rhythmic heartbeat of Flamenco converges with the timeless flow of water.
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Music: Vocals by Marina Heredia, percussion and soundscape by Paquito González and Andy Miller
Program Note: Return to Water is the first work in the 'Elementals' series, a collection of Flamenco works that draw inspiration from the fundamental forces of nature. The natural elements figure prominently in Flamenco poetry and nature’s raw power and untamed spirit resonate with the urgent expression of Flamenco. Return to Water brings forth the beauty that emerges when the rhythmic heartbeat of Flamenco converges with the timeless flow of water.
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Mad Skin
Choreography: Nick Pupillo
Performance: Nia Davis + Morgan Williams
Music: Mac Quayle
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Performance: Nia Davis + Morgan Williams
Music: Mac Quayle
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Masâl
Choreography & Performance: Nejla Yatkin
Music: Le Trio Joubran, Emel
Program Note: "In the celestial dance of the cosmos, the spinning souls of Dancing Dervishes whirl amidst the stars, weaving threads of divine harmony that unite the universe in a symphony of cosmic love."
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Music: Le Trio Joubran, Emel
Program Note: "In the celestial dance of the cosmos, the spinning souls of Dancing Dervishes whirl amidst the stars, weaving threads of divine harmony that unite the universe in a symphony of cosmic love."
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Steel Attraction
Choreography: Kam N. Saunders
Performance: Morgan Williams, Freddy Aguire, Sloan Logsdon, and Shanira Delgado
Music: EmptySet
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Performance: Morgan Williams, Freddy Aguire, Sloan Logsdon, and Shanira Delgado
Music: EmptySet
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The Pavilion Performance is made possible through sponsorship support from Sister Bay Advancement Association w/support from Door Guide Publishing. Captain-level sensor Door Community Auditorium is the host of the rain site.
Design- Charlie Stephens, Photo- Allison Evans at Wild Nest Photography