Peggy Piacenza USA

24.máj, 20:00 Divadlo Aréna/The Arena Theatre

Peggy Piacenza studied dance at North Carolina School of Dance in 1983 – 1987. She was a founding member of d9 Dance Collective, with whom she danced in the works of Bebe Miller, Joy Kellman a Stephanie Skur, among others. Since 1996 she has been a creative collaborator and performer with 33 Fainting Spells in New York – The Storm Cloud in DTW a Sorrow’s Sister in The Joyce Theater and Dirty Work v The Performing Garage. For six years she toured with the Pat Graney Company. Peggy Piacenza’s work has been commissioned and presented by On the Boards’ New Performance Series and Northwest New works Festival, Dance Theater Workshop in New York, d9 Dance Collective.
Her latest projects in film and video include Sage, which was presented as part of On the Boards’ Bowie: Inside / Outside project, which closed the organization’s 2002 – 2003 New Performance Series, as well as The End is Near which was presented by Northwest Film Forum’s Dancers Make Movies program in 2002.

Pre koho som/For Whom Am I

Choreografia a vizuálny dizajn
/Choreography &Visual Design : Peggy Piacenza
Hudba/Music: Fred Frith
Ostatné zvuky, hlasy
/All other instruments, voices: Fred Frith
Svetelný dizajn/Lighting Design: Ben Geffen
Video/Video: John Dixon
Animácia/Animation: Kristin Varner
Filmový záznam/Super 8 footage: Kris Kristensen and Roy Wilson
Výtvarník kostýmov/Costume Design: Jean Landry
Tancujú/Dance: Kate Kerschbaum, Jean Landry, Peggy Piacenza
Hudobníci/Musicians: Carla Kihlstedt, Gail Brand, Fred Giuliani
Music recorded at Guerilla Recordings, Oakland CA Edited and sequenced at Headless Buddha Mastering Lab, Oakland

For whom I am premiered in February 2002 in Center for Contemporary Performance in Seattle and it is the fourth major project of this dancer and choreographer. The choreography turns a brazen and often humorous eye towards to role of performance in the construction of art and identity within western culture. Sharp and outrageously intricate and supercharged with a subtle range of emotion, Piacenza’s choreography exists within and outside a series of frames – a square white dance floor, a hanging screen – that convey a complexity of what it means to see and be seen. Animation echoes the stage imagery with layers of wry commentary: angelwings fly, concrete blocks dance with abandon and a melancholy ice cream cone melts into the stage. The distinct visual and sonic landscape that brings performers and audience face-to-face renders the world of human imagination eerily tangible…

Toto predstavenie je na festivale s prispením grantu z/This project is made possible by a grant from: The Siutcase Fund of dance Theater Workshop, s hlavnou podporou od/with major support from: Trust for Mutual Understanding