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by Shango Los
Writing reviews at the behest of On the Boards usually means I see shows on the opening night. Due to some scheduling surprises, I ended up seeing the Mainstage Showcase on closing night. This was a really warm change. I forgot how festive the audience is, packed with artists from weekend one and how the staff is a bit more loose and fun. Sean Ryan was joyful and exasperated as he gave the final night’s appreciations. My companion and I had now heard them three times already and were able to chant his words to ourselves. (Real Networks, Tim Summers, "Most ambitious season ever") The Mainstage sold out yet again to many congratulations all around. This NWNW Festival definitely has been the best marketed that I have personally seen and I expect that the response this year has set a whole new bar (for both audiences and performers) for the future.
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by Jessica
Check out the new round of reviews: Seattle Times: "Review, NW New Works Weekend #2: A sublimely goofy 'Buffoon' and a dance-driven video game"
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by Tania
VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE Originally intended as a "sketch" for a larger work, this piece explores how perceptions can change through shifting fragments of time as well as the ways in which we experience and view varying levels of self.
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by Shango Los
Attending the On the Boards 2010 NWNW Festival weekend #2 was slightly different for me than last weekend. Due to scheduling issues, I decided to split the two Showcases up onto different nights. Last night I saw the Studio Showcase pieces and will be enjoying the Mainstage Showcase on Sunday evening. As I said last weekend, I do not consider my role on this blog as a critic at all. I’ll leave that to the misanthropy of the local papers. I am an artist’s booster. I am there, yes, to watch with the experienced eye I have developed over 10 years of attending and being engaged by performance but the “critical" part was already taken care of by the OTB selection committee. I am merely writing today to give a glimpse into some of the shows, help you reminisce if you were there and encourage you to go if you have been silly enough to not go already.
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by Tania
VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE Conceived of, shot, and edited in one day, Water Rights features the bridge that supports the City of Roslyn's water line. The bridge locks. The film's protagonist is trapped inside and can only be saved by a modern dancer with a suitcase.
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by Tania
VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE In the future, there is no future. Notice the dystopia.
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by Joe von Appen
Blogin. In most festival situations I find that after a certain density of work seen the pieces begin to speak to one another, they start to answer each other’s questions and echo each other’s sentiments. After the first weekend at the 2010 NWNW festival between the studio and the mainstage I saw three different solos of vastly different disciplines each have moments where the performer brandished a weapon. Now maybe I just like swords, knives and guns but it was a visual reminder of an effect I really appreciate, when art begins to overlap and expose a universality and connecting thread that bonds it all together. I don’t always like festivals but I like this effect and I fucking love the NWNW fest.
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by Shango Los
Attending the On the Boards 2010 NWNW Festival weekend #1 was a real thrill for me last night. This Festival can always be counted on for some exciting and surprising performances. One new twist this year was that in the weeks approaching the Festival, I was able to overhear the chatting between performers on Facebook as they went though their final changes, dress rehearsals and, most fun of all, good lucks and “go get’em girls" in the last 24 hours. As someone who is a “professional audience member" like myself, I felt warmly and happily somehow included. Let’s get one thing off the table at the outset. I do not consider my role on this blog as a critic at all. I’ll leave that to the misanthropy of the local papers. I am an artist’s booster. I am there, yes, to watch with the experienced eye I have developed over 10 years of attending and being engaged by performance but the “critical" part was already taken care of by the OTB selection committee. I am merely writing today to give a glimpse into some of the shows, help you reminisce if you were there and encourage you to go if you have been silly enough to not go already. Tonight is your last opportunity to see these performances and last night was a sell-out for both stages. Next weekend is 8 all new performers. And so we begin.
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by Tania
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STRIKE is a film poem of an Irish woman from Chicago dancing for vegetation. She is attacked by glass jars. It ends with an historical postcard image of a native woman with her papoose. It begins with pages from SONGS OF THE WORKERS. Here, dance is perceived as illegal by an unseen source, but it is also a rallying cry.
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by Tania
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Still employs a secret communication that can only be known to the protagonist. Order is desperately trying to be achieved as a litany of numbers is repeated, implying a formula or idea that she is attempting to resolve but is ultimately unsolvable.
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