...and its shadow
...and its shadow is a companion dance to Strange Engagements (2020). It’s being choreographed to the incidental soundscore the dancers make in Strange Engagements. This ‘found’ score will be played live by a percussionist. The two dances will be performed on the same program one following the other.
My expectation is that there will be something uncanny about this experience. The sound from Strange Engagements is often amorphous, but it has enough distinctive moments where I know the audience will understand that they are now hearing again the dance they just saw. This sound, now music, is the veil between the two works through which they communicate with each other — existing symbiotically.
Project Proposal
Video - Rehearsal Clips
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THE END
In The End formalist elements hold space for a solo performance of vulnerabilities, and the decomposition of memory. Some musical elements included.
Flower of the Season 2023, Electric Lodge, Venice, CA
November 17 - 19, 2023
Presented by Body Weather Laboratory
Performance: Melinda Ring
Musical Intervention: Zenji Oguri
Lighting Design: Melinda Ring, Keiden Oguri
Video - Excerpt
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