Artful Play
December 12, 2010, 7pm
3rd Ward (map)
Video and performance work with a playful devious nature. Min Oh brings her original interactive storytelling back to Moviehouse and video artists Itziar Barrio and Ann and Alexx make dances share new work bound to make you move.
Featuring
A Dialog, Part 3 by Min Oh
The third part of Min Oh’s “A Dialog” featuring her innovative artistic technique that allows the audience to decide how the performance will play out. Using previously recorded clips of herself in the space, Oh interacts with an exact replica of herself on the screen based on the audiences’ collective choice. The performance consists of comical tension between the two people, and also between the artist and the audience; between inclusion and exclusion. In her other work, Min Oh plays with two contradictory qualities that conflict but also keep a weird balance — sweet but violent, naive but manipulative, rational but unreasonable. Their logic operates in a world where the sum becomes more than the individual parts.
Bailalo by Itziar Barrio
A one scene film featuring a young woman performing a striptease to a sensual music. She removes one t-shirt after another, a sort of never ending expectational dance.
The Long Nighters in: The Very Short Day by ann and alexx make dances
A film inspired by imagery and time as experienced in dreams, and by silent films. ann and alexx make dances’ original choreography which was created first for live performance (commissioned by Dance New Amsterdam in 2007), is manipulated in public locations which cannot ordinarily be accessed by a standard audience, creating a humorous, non-linear narrative about an unusual alliance.
Artistic Direction: Ann Robideaux/Alexandra Shilling
Performers: Amir Levi, Lee Sunday Evans, Devika Wickremisinghe, Megan Sipe
Director of Photography: Janusz Jaworski
Editing: Alexandra Shilling
Chef David Siegel
Come early for a live-action, choose-your-own-adventure dining experience. Select from an array of intriguing seasonal ingredients and watch as Chef David Siegel assembles your dish in real time. A year’s worth world-wandering, a knack for creating on the fly, and an interest in the unexpected will combine to make a playful meal born not just of his imagination, but also yours.
