salon du garage #2 – We
Know
salon du garage is an ongoing platform for work. Having performed in the grand spaces
of German opera houses, festivals in Monaco, and New York City theaters, Dawn
Stoppiello now presents intimate performance installations in her garage at
4511 NE Prescott Street, PDX 97218. A garage is a space where things get worked
on. As a method of working on herself as a solo artist through group council,
Stoppiello and audience together play out structured improvisational movement
scores that are both silly and serious.
We Know is
a duet performance activity where everyone involved, performers and audience,
are following the instructions, reading the manual, trying to do it right and
making all the most interesting mistakes anyway.
salon du garage #2 - We Know will happen every Saturday in April 2013.
The garage doors will
open at 6:00PM.
The performance runs
one hour.
Mild audience
participation is requested.
Drinks and light
snacks will follow.
No more than 20
guests will be included in each performance.
Repeats are welcome.
Free.
Please RSVP:
dawnmariestoppiello[at]gmail[dot]com
Rehearsal schedule: Monday
afternoons and Thursday evenings in March
Press/marketing: eblast to
invited guests and list on Facebook
Performers: Dawn
Stoppiello and Nancy Ellis
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Research
topics: improvisation/scores, non-traditional performance space, audience
participation, swarm and emergent behavior, camera tracking, intervention for
an outside entity, visual scores (one image/object=one performer response), how
to develop over time a structured improvisation to create a “weird-logic-drama”
that feels wholly complete, releasing control of composition – process reveals
meaning, no singular meaning but instead multiple interpretations from within a
certain realm, audience as part of composition and interaction, use of “media
personality” as creative inspiration (intervention) to explicitly translate
what I think is happening to space, time and body in the digitally dominant
world.
My primary
research will be (is) doing the work, doing the making with my body, exploring
the systems I have created so far, combining and refining them, making scenarios
and playing them out. I am reading Susan Rethorst’s book A Choreographic Mind
and also referring to Jonathan Burrow’s book A Choreographer’s Handbook. I have
been talking to everyone I know about my interests. Mark Coniglio and I have
had several Skype meetings to discuss our process. Below are five references to
current influences on my research.
Susan
Rethorst – her philosophy in general: http://www.alpertawards.org/archive/winner10/thework/dance/perception.html
Signa – a
piece I saw using audience interaction that had great impact: http://signa.dk/projects?pid=53983
SWARM - a
jumping off point for reading about swarm behavior: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_behaviour
Emergent
Behavior – general inspiration on how to set up these systems: http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/emergent-behavior, http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL82C5FC07758915B0,
Garage
Series – me trying to work things out in real time and real space:
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