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Alice Gosti || Protecting the herd
NOTE: Tickets still available at the door unless specified here.
"Protecting the herd" is an immersive live performance by Italian-American choreographer Alice Gosti in collaboration with Seattle composer Benjamin Marx.
"Protecting the herd" is the sister performance to Alice's "How to become a Partisan," which premiered at the Saint Mark's Cathedral in Seattle in April 2015. While the latter was spacious, lasted 5 hours, and featured singer Hanna Benn as focus, "Protecting the herd" will feel claustrophobic, last one hour and center on a herd of performers as our focus. Both performances are presented in correspondence with the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Italy from the Fascists.
A key element of the performance is a one-hour song cycle, composed by Benjamin Marx (Degenerate Art Ensemble) using recordings from "How to become a partisan." This includes Hanna Benn's singing (Pollens, Sun-Lux, Boots), songs from the partisan movement of 1943 1945, a traveling chamber choir, an intergenerational community choir, coded Italian WWII radio announcements, timpani, hand bells, and the famous organ of Saint Mark's Cathedral.
Amiya Brown's remarkable lighting design will create a light sculpture that will function as a container for the herd to live in.
The incredible cast of dance artists:
Colleen McNeary, Alyza DelPan-Monley , Brittani Karhoff, Noelle Chun, Lorraine Lau, Kaitlin McCarthy and Amy Ross.
How do we move away from apathy and indifference into resistance? What needs to happen for us to take action? What is the space that women are allowed/not to exist in? These are the timely questions driving "Protecting the herd." Gosti, along with her extraordinary Seattle cast, developed choreography using resistance as a physical score, asking questions around What is required to act? and, What if women take the space they want, instead of having to be small and invisible?
Protecting the herd focuses on questions of identity, community, and where art belongs, challenging the canonic boundaries of dance.
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LocationPERFORMANCE WORKS NW (View)
4625 SE 67th Ave.
Portland, OR 97206
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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