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UMAMI Performance (Aiko Kinoshita / Aaron Swartzman) at INSCAPE
A compelling, site-specific evening-length movement performance at the former INS Federal building, home | bodies examines the rich and ordinary subject of home. Part performance, part installation, the work makes use of multiple spaces, video, and an impressive range of partner and solo dancing to depict both the effort to coexist with another in the physical container that we call home, and the even more intimate endeavor of dwelling comfortably within ourselves. The work also features a sound score by Amy Denio, video by Kathryn Padberg, lighting by Amiya Brown, and scenography by Etta Lillienthal.
Integrating and building upon material and ideas from the previous three works of the Finding Home Series, Aiko Kinoshita and Aaron Swartzman create an intimate, abstract narrative about home, relationship, and the body. Utilizing dynamic partnering, cinematic imagery, improvisation and theatrical elements, they create and move through multiple shades of home. Seattle composer Amy Denio's far ranging sound score incorporates ordinary sounds such as washing machines, birds and crickets to create a sonic landscape which accompanies the duet on its metaphorical journey through a day. The dancing ranges from frenetic to subtle, the images from funny to profound, the props from kitchen tables to clothes hampers and closets, the emotions from routine to deeply intimate.
UMAMI performance has been creating movement metaphors grounded in the extraordinariness of the everyday for the past 4 years. Their latest work, performed at the 2009 NWNW festival, received rave reviews from press and audience alike. Dynamic performers each accomplished in their own right, Kinoshita and Swartzman's collaboration continues to grow through a shared interest in the meeting of set and improvised material and the challenge of creating clear and cohesive story-telling within the rawness and immediacy of improvisation. They aim to stay true to the depth and mystery of their artistic process while crafting subtle, gripping dance work, rooted in everyday experience. They share a long history as generative performers in Seattle's LINGO dancetheater, and in other improvisational performance and co-teaching ventures.
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LocationINSCAPE
815 Airport Way S
Seattle, WA 98134
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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