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Entropy. Redress.

Entropy. Redress.
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In Entropy. Redress. one live artist, with more than 40 digital contributions from as many collaborators, tells the story of a dress, an identity, a journey, and an expectation.

Artists in California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Colorado, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, New York, Massachusetts, Greece, and South Korea were given three instructions and time with a dress custom tailored to fit the live solo performer.

1) Learn a particular meditation practice, crafted to support mindful presence in raw emotional energy. (There were no requirements about the use of this practice.)

2) Generate between 1 and 6 minutes of digital video footage wherein the dress appears. (The footage was forwarded to the Lead Artist for use in creating Entropy. Redress.)

3) Write about your experience with the project.

All of the contributors completed one or more of the instructions. (for a complete list of Artist Contributor/Collaborators, visit www.soikowski.com)
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total performance art.
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Rhonda J. Soikowski is the founder and lead artist for soikowski research | performance, a conversation for the development and practice of new and advanced technique for the performance practitioner (www.soikowski.com). She is a teaching theater artist specializing in collaborative process - her primary disciplines are acting, directing, and new performance generation. She holds an MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University and a BFA in Acting with an Original Works emphasis from Cornish College of the Arts.

Entropy. Redress. is the second in a three year, three performance series testing the development of new techniques for use in stretching the capacity for emotional availability and bodymindvoice connection in training cross-disciplinary performance artists. Beginning with the 2010 production of exits and smoke., Rhonda J. Soikowski has endeavored to produce relevant and immediate performance in answer to questions that arise for the artist in training, teaching, and in ensemble generative process around emotion as a substance and holistic bodymindvoice connection.