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A binary indicates a spectrum. The binaries of awareness/action and improvisation/choreography indicate that we do and what we sense; what we decide and what we do in the moment are intertwined. Every movement in every moment of the dance is carved out of the spatio-temporal kinetic potential afforded the dancers by their extant training and their aesthetic.
What is the border between action and response? Why/how does observation change our movement? How/why does movement change our observation? Do the needs of the individual outweigh the desire of the group?
Performance, as defined by theorist Peggy Phelan, is that which disappears. Art as defined by Andrew Wass, is the residual document of its creation. Secondary Surfaces Rendered, the newest set of corporeal kinetic investigations by the Lower Left Performance Collective, combines these two definitions to blur the boundaries between dance and visual art. Moving away from the constraints of the standard proscenium setting, Lower Left invites the audience to create their own journey through this performance. Come experience this dance-art event.
"And Go", an ensemble improvisation by Lower Left presented by Ponderosa Movement & Discovery, P.O.R.C.H. Festival, Stolzenhagen, Germany. Performed by Rebecca Bryant, Kelly Dalrymple-Wass, Nina Martin, and Andrew Wass; with music by Don Nichols.
presented by Marfa Live Arts
Tuesday July 9th 2013
8:00 pm
with 12:00 to 1:00pm pre-show installation
Crowley Theater
Marfa, Texas
Performed/conceived/choreographed by Lower Left artists Kelly Dalrymple-Wass, Nina Martin, Margaret Paek, Leslie Scates, and Andrew Wass.
Filmed by Susan Simmons
Music by Andrew Wass and Steve Reich
SECONDARY SURFACE RENDERED
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Performance, as defined by theorist Peggy Phelan, is that which disappears. Art as defined by Andrew Wass, is the residual document of its creation. Secondary Surfaces Rendered, the newest set of corporeal kinetic investigations by the Lower Left Performance Collective, combines these two definitions to blur the boundaries between dance and visual art. Moving away from the constraints of the standard proscenium setting, Lower Left invites the audience to create their own journey through this performance. Come experience this dance-art event.
presented by Marfa Live Arts
Tuesday July 9th 2013
8:00 pm
with 12:00 to 1:00pm pre-show installation
Crowley Theater
Marfa, Texas
Performed/conceived/choreographed by Lower Left artists Kelly Dalrymple-Wass, Nina Martin, Margaret Paek, Leslie Scates, and Andrew Wass.
Filmed by Susan Simmons
Music by Andrew Wass and Steve Reich
SECONDARY SURFACE RENDERED
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Performance, as defined by theorist Peggy Phelan, is that which disappears. Art as defined by Andrew Wass, is the residual document of its creation. Secondary Surfaces Rendered, the newest set of corporeal kinetic investigations by the Lower Left Performance Collective, combines these two definitions to blur the boundaries between dance and visual art. Moving away from the constraints of the standard proscenium setting, Lower Left invites the audience to create their own journey through this performance. Come experience this dance-art event.
presented by Marfa Live Arts
Tuesday July 9th 2013
8:00 pm
with 12:00 to 1:00pm pre-show installation
Crowley Theater
Marfa, Texas
Performed/conceived/choreographed by Lower Left artists Kelly Dalrymple-Wass, Nina Martin, Margaret Paek, Leslie Scates, and Andrew Wass.
Filmed by Susan Simmons
Music by Andrew Wass and Steve Reich