SHELTER
Heavy comfort, burdensome weight; “one day you take off the blanket of deep grief. You fold it neatly and tuck it away. You no longer hate it or resist it. For underneath it, wondrous things have happened.” ~ adapted from Lysa TerKeurst
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PC: Lynn Lane, Maranda Blumenthal
UNTITLED
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PC: Nathan Harmon
IMPRINT
A solo exploring the birthright of God’s claim of imprint on the human soul. The Scriptures indicates that we are made in God’s image. How does connecting to that inward imprint guide us as we journey outwardly? Does it journey with us or do we contrive the circumstances to “feel” connected when we need to? Performed for 2 years by Alicia Chesser, Tulsa.
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PC: Maranda Blumenthal
HOLDING SPACE
Drawing from relationship and story, "Holding Space" explores the idea of how to best hold space for another person moving through life's circumstances. It was a pleasure working with movers willing to explore momentum and changing patterns, contact work and performed watching as metaphors for relational navigation during times of connection and times of witness to those around us.
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PC: John Ferrante
SHE DREW A PICTURE OF A WHALE
Duet. In a split-screen layout, two soloists confront their struggles as one performer suppresses and the other unleashes the monster of distorted body image.
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PC: Maranda Blumenthal, Joe Osejo, Jeanne S. Mam-Luft
SELF PORTRAIT
Considered therapeutic in the 1800s, creating a self-portrait was a way for artists to reflect through personal and professional analysis on her or his mental status, a critical theme into our obsessive nature (in this case, a positive quality) to reflect, recount, remember, and refine. Self-portrait is a conversation with others about each dancer’s unique experience with womanhood.
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PC: John Ferrante, Nikki Riggs
FENCES
Fences, a co-choreographed piece by Alicia Chesser and Rachel Bruce Johnson work uses 4 large hollow core doors fashioned into 2 paneled corners to explore into how boundaries “fence us in”, keep us safe, and/or limit our knowledge in the scanning crosshairs of human interaction.
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PC: Maranda Blumenthal
GAME OF RISK
A Game of Risk explores the connection between one's view of self-worth and self-preservation. What risks are too costly? How do we use others for self-preservation? Is there a place where your idea of how much you're worth can take you where there is no fear in vulnerability? This is a quartet exploring that balance between understanding self-worth and risk-taking.
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PC: Maranda Blumenthal
VICE GRIP
Vice Grip, choreographed by Rachel Bruce Johnson for Living Water, was inspired by the day-to-day experience of living with chronic pain. The work is an abstract exploration on the presence, build, and release of tension.
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PC: Lynn Lane
STANDING AT THE EDGE
From inside a hollow body, the dancer finds herself searching for a more meaningful reason to breathe in and out every day. Following interrupted pathways and calculated movements, everything changes upon one crucial decision to accept a new rhythm of breathing.
*This piece was originally committed by artist, Allison Gilles, for her Thesis presentation and installation at Texas Woman's University.
*This piece was originally committed by artist, Allison Gilles, for her Thesis presentation and installation at Texas Woman's University.
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PC: Living Arts of Tulsa
AVELUT
Based on Jewish philosophies of grieving, two women support and comfort a mourner as they simply sit with one another. The dancers shift, spar, plummet, and wade through the myriad of emotions that can accompany the process.
PREPARE THE VEIL
A solo about the preparation for spiritual battle, *Prepare the Veil* was born from the theology of the Church as a warrior bride. The dance deals with the seemingly conflicting ideas of war and marriage in an effort to explore the placement of this dichotomy in the spiritual realm rather than the natural.
Bag Children
Creating a duet acknowledging the reality of homelessness as a result of aging out of the foster system, Bag Children, will premiere a cabaret performance, "Fractured Lives: Unhoused 2016", at Living ArtSpace on May 14th @ 8 pm.
Deborah J. Hunter is the curator of "Fragmented Lives: Unhoused", a showcase of poets, musicians, dancers and other artists who are or have been homeless or are close to someone who is or has been homeless. This presentation is in conjunction with LivingArts' 2016 Homeless Project as a collaborative effort with the Tulsa initiative to end chronic homelessness in 2016.
Deborah J. Hunter is the curator of "Fragmented Lives: Unhoused", a showcase of poets, musicians, dancers and other artists who are or have been homeless or are close to someone who is or has been homeless. This presentation is in conjunction with LivingArts' 2016 Homeless Project as a collaborative effort with the Tulsa initiative to end chronic homelessness in 2016.
THE ART OF HUDDLING
A quiet rebellion against individualism, The Art of Huddling is a commentary on the ways in which our society scraps to live in individualism when we were built for community.
It is also an homage to one of the pioneering masters of improvisation, Simone Forti, and a nod to her work, Huddle.
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It is also an homage to one of the pioneering masters of improvisation, Simone Forti, and a nod to her work, Huddle.
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DESCENT: THE NEAL HUTTO STORY, 7 DOORWAYS/7 STORIES
Neal Hutto has been described as a child musical prodigy. Classically trained, he developed a unique style of “New-age” guitar during his teen years. In his 20’s Neal began suffering with a slowly developing condition of Paranoid Schizophrenia. By the age of thirty he was homeless, living in his car and had lost the ability to focus on his special musical talent.
QUIVER
Ferocious Love & Quiet Administration; the complicated simplicity of a mother’s care. In motherhood, I am finding my way in an extended reality beyond my own self-focused realm that requires my kinosphere to broaden, narrow, soften, breath, flex, envelop and release.
SILT
A solo work exploring displacement and migration.
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Header PC: Tom Payne
CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKS
Scarlet Ibis
Dive
White After Labor Day
Last Thread
She Drew a Picture of a Whale
Avelut
Beat of a Different Heart
Do Not Wake Love
In Company
Ironice
The Lord’s Prayer: Improvography, ORU Course Outcome
Form-Transform
Moment of Inertia
Self-Portrait, co-choreographer
Prepare the Veil
Standing at the Edge
Vice Grip
Fences, co-choreographer
Imprint
Game of Risk
Broke No. 1: The Golden Child (co-choreograph)
Broke No. 2: The Other Sister
Broke No. 4: Silver Spoons (co-choreograph)
Shelter
Quiver (Negotiations)
Field Study No. 82: Co-Improvography, performed by Alicia Chesser
The Eternal Return: Along Came Mrs. Alkali (co-choreographer & consultant)
Bag Children
Jeremy: A Way With Hands, 7 Doorways\7 Stories
Descent: The Neal Hutto Story, 7 Doorways\7 Stories (improvography)
Unmastered, co-choreographer
Sketch 31: Improvography, ORU Course Outcome
Holding Space
Would You Like Ketchup With That?, Improvography, ORU Course Outcome
Strange Weather: Improvography, contributor
Untitled, co-choreographer
Gobsmacked (excerpt): contributor
The Art of Huddling: Improvography, Director, ORU Course Outcome
A Psalm Of Our Own: video dance and art book
Cocoon: A duet solo with Joy Baumberger and Adi Porras
Scarlet Ibis
Dive
White After Labor Day
Last Thread
She Drew a Picture of a Whale
Avelut
Beat of a Different Heart
Do Not Wake Love
In Company
Ironice
The Lord’s Prayer: Improvography, ORU Course Outcome
Form-Transform
Moment of Inertia
Self-Portrait, co-choreographer
Prepare the Veil
Standing at the Edge
Vice Grip
Fences, co-choreographer
Imprint
Game of Risk
Broke No. 1: The Golden Child (co-choreograph)
Broke No. 2: The Other Sister
Broke No. 4: Silver Spoons (co-choreograph)
Shelter
Quiver (Negotiations)
Field Study No. 82: Co-Improvography, performed by Alicia Chesser
The Eternal Return: Along Came Mrs. Alkali (co-choreographer & consultant)
Bag Children
Jeremy: A Way With Hands, 7 Doorways\7 Stories
Descent: The Neal Hutto Story, 7 Doorways\7 Stories (improvography)
Unmastered, co-choreographer
Sketch 31: Improvography, ORU Course Outcome
Holding Space
Would You Like Ketchup With That?, Improvography, ORU Course Outcome
Strange Weather: Improvography, contributor
Untitled, co-choreographer
Gobsmacked (excerpt): contributor
The Art of Huddling: Improvography, Director, ORU Course Outcome
A Psalm Of Our Own: video dance and art book
Cocoon: A duet solo with Joy Baumberger and Adi Porras