|
Cid Pearlman/Performance Projects
The Name of this Dance Changes Every Day.
Thursday - Sunday, March 26-29, 8:00pm
The 418 Project, 418 Front Street, Santa Cruz
$12 Thursday; $16-20 sliding scale Friday – Sunday; $12 students
all shows
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or call 800.838.3006
“Wit is a rare commodity in dance. Even more than its gentler
cousin, humor, it demands a finely tuned eye and ability to observe
with detachment without letting go of commitment. Cid Pearlman has
what it takes.” San Francisco Bay Guardian
Best known for her choreography for San Francisco/Los
Angeles dance company Nesting Dolls, and described by the LA Weekly
as having a “brash wit and postpunk aesthetics,” Cid
Pearlman will premiere the full-length version of Emotional Geographies.
After seeing the first section of Emotional Geographies, San Diego
dance critic Janice Steinberg wrote, “I want to live in the
little societies that Cid Pearlman creates: people hold their ground
when they need to, still they have an essential gentleness toward
one another.”
Emotional Geographies is choreographed by Pearlman
in collaboration with the members of her new Santa Cruz based dance
company, and is made up of four distinct sections – Fire Sale,
Close Call, Single Man and Tea Entwined (working title). It features
original music by composer Jonathan Segel, who is best known for
his work with Camper van Beethoven, and with whom Pearlman has collaborated
for over fifteen years.
The works that make up Emotional Geographies:
2008’s Fire Sale features four performers,
an eight by eight square of black & white linoleum, and two
green chairs. In this simple, but compelling environment, Pearlman
deftly juxtaposes violence, tenderness, beauty, ugliness, strength
and fragility, to illuminate the complexity, and sometimes absurdity,
of social relationships. Fire Sale was created in collaboration
with dancers Sarah Day, David King, Matthew Shyka and Sara Wilbourne.
Close Call was presented as a work in progress
last October at Pearlman’s Looking Left festival, and continues
where Fire Sale left off. This time a twelve by twelve square of
light is filled to the brim with the robust dancing of Sarah Day,
Ana Flecha, Leslie Johnson, Molly Katzman and Melissa C. Wiley.
This section of Emotional Geographies investigates proximity, intimacy,
touch, and moment of physically close calls – when a swung
foot comes inches away from a dancer’s face, when two bodies
nearly collide, but don’t.
Single Man (premiere), a solo for Sara Wilbourne,
is set in a space the size of a single bed. Performed to a recording
of the opening paragraphs of author Christopher Isherwood’s
A Single Man, this work looks at how the body ages, and how we live
in our aging bodies.
Tea Entwined (premiere), a duet for David King
and Daniel Davis, inhabits a three dimensional installation made
of string and cloth silk-screened as newspaper, constructed by the
dancers during the piece.
Cid Pearlman: Biography
Cid Pearlman’s choreography has been presented
by numerous venues including Joyce SoHo, the Getty Center, the Museum
of Contemporary Art San Diego, and Theater Artaud. From 1991-1999
Pearlman was the artistic director of San Francisco’s critically
acclaimed Nesting Dolls. In 1999 Pearlman relocated to Los Angeles,
establishing herself as an independent choreographer and producer.
Her most recent collaborations have been with composers Joan Jeanrenaud,
formerly of Kronos Quartet, and Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven.
In addition to her own works, Pearlman has choreographed for film,
opera and theater. Her evening length dance, High Fall, won Los
Angeles’ Lester Horton Award for Visual Design, and 2006’s
small variations, was nominated for two Horton Awards. After receiving
her M.F.A. in Dance from UCLA in 2006, Pearlman moved to Santa Cruz
and currently teaches in the Dance Department at Cabrillo College.
Her work has received support from the Djerassi Resident Artist
Program, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the San Francisco
Art Commission, the Zellerbach Family Fund, the Walter and Elise
Haas Fund, the American Composers Forum and, most recently, the
Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.
These performances were made possible, in part, by a grant from
the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.
SantaCruzDance.com
|
