Event

Choreographer Noelle Chun presents, Ma, an evening-length work meditating on the ephemerality of the nature of dance. Chun questions the compulsion to make dances (art) despite the inevitable impermanence of the work and ourselves. Can this dance celebrate ephemerality? Can we embody the bittersweetness that is part and parcel of making dances and living life? The title, Ma refers to a religious-aesthetic paradigm in Japanese culture that illuminates meaningful intervals and gaps of time and space. A revealed world emptied and filled anew in each moment, nothing abides.

In Ma, dancers inhabit a world between presence and absence, practice and performance, certainty and the unknown. Veteran Seattle dancers Vanessa DeWolf, Linsyanne Owen, and Hendri Walujo channel physical and spiritual practices to open themselves to the poetics of the ever-changing moment; laboriously and serendipitously vacillating between states of full-bodied catharsis, personal gesture, and pregnant stillness. Visual artist Tara Tamaribuchi creates an installation that adds layers of energy, weight and emotion to the environment.