Four OtB Alumni team up at MoMA Aug 22, 2012
by Monique
Some sweet day (Oct 15 - Nov 4 2012) is a three-week program of dance performances in the Museum's Marron Atrium by contemporary choreographers.
Some sweet day (Oct 15 - Nov 4 2012) is a three-week program of dance performances in the Museum's Marron Atrium by contemporary choreographers.
OtB alum Sarah Michelson was featured at the Whitney Biennial this past week.
Here's what Seattle critics are saying so far about Devotion:
Sarah Michelson has said that experiences and the unknown are more important to her than explanations, but while Devotion, her new and brilliant piece, arrives at something like math-based bliss, the first part of it is a long spoken text with a soloist: a contemporary re-telling of the story of the Garden, the Explusion, Adam and Eve making babies up to age 900,
There is singularly nothing that makes a difference a difference in beginning and
in the middle and in ending except that each generation has something different
at which they are all looking. By this I mean so simply that anybody knows it that
composition is the difference which makes each and all of them then different
Devotion is evident in the details of this abstract rendering of life itself. The stage is an installation of galvanized support pipes, lifting and framing in reverence several exquisite formal portraits (Sarah & Richard?), held on high and lit with a shipyard's worth of arc lights. Enough light to illuminate a stadium.
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Next week's Seattle premiere of Devotion features two heavy hitters from NYC: choreographer Sarah Michelson and playwright Richard Maxwell. Read on below for more insight into both of these artists!
When Sarah Michelson first came to OtB in 2005 she redesigned both the exterior and interior of On the Boards and brought in a slew of community dancers to fill all of our spaces, from the parking lot across the street to the admin offices.