Award Winning Choreographer
Stephanie Skura shows Two Huts
“Stephanie Skura constructs new meanings even as she
demolishes choreographic preconceptions.” (New York Times)
What: Showings of Stephanie Skura’s Two Huts with Debra Wanner, Tom Cayler, Todd Jefferson Moore.
When: Saturday, Sunday, & Monday, February 4, 5, & 6, 2012 at 8:30 pm
(Participatory talk after Saturday’s showing, facilitated by feedback wizard Vanessa Dewolf)
Where: Open Flight Studio, 4205 University Way, Seattle, WA
Cost: $10 at the door, cash or check
In a rare presentation of major work in Seattle, Stephanie Skura will present showings of Two Huts, prior to a production of the work at New York’s newly renovated Roulette in March. Hailed by Dance Ink as “a great American experimentalist” Skura has been creating and performing original works for over thirty years to international and national acclaim, creating a reputation for consistently adventurous work.
Two Huts is a radically imagistic, vocally athletic movement theater work about two women living side by side in alternate universes. Skura & Wanner write, dance & chant their world into being. With an iconoclastic approach to language, an athletic approach to the voice, a sturdy respect for subconscious realities, & a predisposition for unintended prophecy, the two women make rules, change the rules, laugh, argue, almost die, & mysteriously recycle. Cayler & Moore — two men in a related universe — comment, reflect, foreshadow, dance, lose & regain confidence, lose & regain structure, & go off on their own journey.
For more info on Skura’s work, visit:
http://www.stephanieskura.com
http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/project/two_huts
HERE/NOW: Installment 12
(3-year anniversary!)
DATE: Saturday, March 10, 2012
SEATING: 730-8pm
SHOW: 8-945pm
ENTRY: $8 suggested donation
BEVERAGES: inspired selection of healthy cans and bottles + hot tea
MERCHANDISE: packaged DVDs of past installments
HERE/NOW is a quarterly Dance and Music improvisation-based performance series produced by Christopher Hydinger and Paige Barnes. Consisting of 8 Dancers and 8 Musicians randomly paired together via audience participation and given 8 minutes to improvise a duet, HERE/NOW has become a distinct and vital cultural event while also providing a much needed platform for experimentation, connection and feedback between professional Dancers and Musicians.
