American Spaces
CAR
CAR
Kate and her dancers are currently rehearsing CAR, a new movement installation created in collaboration with video artist Ricardo Rivera, composer Joshua Kerr Cicetti, and dramaturge Sebastienne Mundhiem. The second work in a trilogy of performance installations called “American Spaces,” Car will take place inside a moving vehicle. It will be performed for three audience members at a time, who sit in the backseat. They will be driven through the landscape of car culture (in parking lots, garages, and drive-thrus), witnessing and participating in movement events and interactive video installations. Car will unravel the secrets and history held in cars, using a seemingly ordinary space to create extraordinary movement events. Car will investigate the body of the performer/driver, the body of the spectator/passenger, and the body of the car itself.
The research and development of Car is made possible with support from the Map Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, and Dance Advance, a program of the Pew Charitable Trusts administered by the University of the Arts, Susan Hess Choreographers Project, The Independence Foundation, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Whole Foods Market, Philly Car Share and The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.
Thu, 11/08/2007 - 10:49am
CAR
CAR will premiere at the 2008 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival in September.
Performed by: Megan Mazarick, David Konyk, Jaamil Kosoko, Mikoto Hirano, Kate Watson-Wallace, Alex Holmes
Movement created in collaboration with the performers.
Video Design: Ricardo Rivera
Dramaturge: Sebastienne Mundhiem
Composer: Josh Cicetti
Costume Design: Linda Smyth
The development of CAR is being supported in part by: Dance Advance, a program of the Pew Charitable rusts administered by the University of the Arts; the Rockefeller Map Fund, a program of Creative Capital; The Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Lively Arts Series, Philly Car Share, Whole Foods Market, Susan Hess Choreographers Project and the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.
American Spaces
of each locale. The audience is brought on intimate, human-scale journeys from place to place. With “American Spaces” we want to unravel the secrets and history held in the places we spend our day-to-day. We aim to investigate the witness-spectator relationship, relocating audiences to a house, a car, and a store.
Upcoming Performances
April 27, 2007
CAR work-in-progress showing
2-5PM
Downtown Philadelphia
Reservations required. Please contact: katewawa@yahoo.com to reserve a seat in the car.
May 25, 2007
CAR work-in-progress showing
2-5PM
Downtown Philadelphia
Reservations required. Please contact: katewawa@yahoo.com to reserve a seat in the car.
June 7, 2007
Motion Pictures
Screening of House
(a film version of House)
7PM
The Wilma Theater
Broad and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia
September 4-9, 2007
Dance Now/NYC
Dance Film Series
Screening of House Film
Dance Theater Workshop
New York, NY
September 2007
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival
Work-in-progress showing of CAR
September 25, 2007
In Liquid Benefit Performance
The Crane Building
Phiily, PA
November 2007
Teaching residency at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2008
Company Residency at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
September 2008
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival
World premire of CAR
Wed, 04/04/2007 - 11:06am
