TARGET Dance Access Day!
Two Performances for Youth & One for Seniors and Adults with Disabilities
Tuesday, December 4th
9:30am youth, 11:00am youth, and 1:30pm for seniors
Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, 1428 Alice Street, Oakland, CA
FREE of Charge
Contact Annika Nonhebel, (510) 625-0110, annika@axisdance.org, www.axisdance.org
Oakland Museum of California Off The Wall 3-day Celebration
featuring AXIS Dance Company
Saturday, December 8th, 2-3pm
Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street@ 10th St.
Tickets: $8 adults, $5 Students & Seniors, Free for youth 5 and under
As a part of the Access & Activism Day, AXIS will perform short excerpts of their repertory, show video, and do interactive exercises with the audience.
Info: 510/238-2200. Hearing impaired: TTY 510/238-3322. www.museumca.org
Download Flyer with information on Off The Wall (pdf)
One Breath is an Ocean for a Wooden Heart (World Premiere)
Choreographed/Created by: Lisa Bufano, Sonsheree Giles, and Jerry Smith
Performed by: Lisa Bufano and Sonsheree Giles of AXIS Dance Company
Music performed by: Jerry Smith
One Breath is an Ocean for a Wooden Heart was commissioned in part by AXIS DANCE COMPANY in association with Alliger Arts.
Sun, December 9th
Art Workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
contact Slaven Tolj: arl@du.htnet.hr
Tues, December 11th
Kapelica Gallery, Kersnikova 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Thurs, December 13th
KONTEJNER, Caniceva 9 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Suncica Ostoic sunce@kontejner.org
One Breath is an Ocean for a Wooden Heart is an unusual modern dance duet for one dancer with a disability and one without that examines the relationship between physical transformation and identity. In this performance, the dancers wear wooden stilts secured to their arms and legs. The stilts are constructed from familiar, every-day objects to create illusion and are a visually compelling tool of transformation. Through the quality of their movement, the dancers are transformed into animated furniture, magical toys, 8-legged insect, 4-legged gazelle, 2-legged birds. The affect is an eerie other-worldliness that may leave audiences with the idea that they can’t trust how things appear. Two dramatically different bodies navigate a movement and sound landscape that is both enabled and constrained by their use of wooden stilts. The precarious nature of working on stilts equalizes the dancers’ physical abilities; thereby opening a dialogue about relationships between people with very different physicalities.
Photo courtesey The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography.
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