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Leralee Whittle: J (()) Y || Mizu Desierto: Death=Change
NOTE: Arts for All attendees should email info@pwnw-pdx.org to reserve tickets.
In J (()) Y, LERALEE WHITTLE's dance history in American, European and African dance is reconfigured into genre-bending assemblages fueled by new and ancient body circuitry, her body of work on instant composition, and the audience. She complements her live performance with video art plus live sound by her collaborator of 13 years, musician/composer Paul Sprawl. The videos feature Whittle collaborating in found installations she finds in her travels. The spaces appeal to her visually, symbolically, or as a lab for experimentation and play. She brings these found spaces into the performance space, where the audience can then experience a giant retro yellow gym, or trip into a strange corner for a humorous impromptu dance. For Whittle, occupying spaces and then creating and sharing video art made from the footage is a two-step culture-jamming in protest against the formulaic colonization of bodies, hearts, minds and imaginations.
Whittle will also lead a workshop at Performance Works on Sunday June 3rd, from 12-3pm, $15-30.
MIZU DESIERTO will be joining Leralee in this event to share DEATH=CHANGE, a work-in-progress exploring loss of control in favor of liquidity.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
LERALEE WHITTLE is a dance and video artist working in the US, Canada and Europe. She performs instant composition regularly with musician Paul Sprawlin arts venues, homes and festivals. She crafts video and performance for stage, galleries, site-specific locations and internet audiences. She teaches instant composition, embodiment practices and contact improvisation as a guest teacher at such venues as Wayne State University, FLOCK, Portland, OR, Counterpulse, San Francisco, Sudstern Jam, Berlin, The Cowels Center, Minneapolis. She collaborated with Nita Little in the performance and research of compositional improvisation 1995-2005, and performed choreography with Anouk van Dijk, Tandy Beal and Scott Wells. Her work has been presented internationally in festivals: Dinamiche Scomposte/Teatro di Limonae, Italy, Twin Cities Film Festival, Twin Cities/Montreal Choreographer Exchange, and venues such as PWNW, Portland; La Esquina Gallery, Kansas City; Southern Theater, Minneapolis; Starlight Theatre, Terlingua, TX; Urban Culture Project, KC, MO; The 418 Project, Santa Cruz; and Aria, Barcelona. Leralee Whittle is a recipient of Project Space Residency, Counterpulse, SF (2017) and a grant from PLRAC, MN (2017), Theatre Bay Area, San Francisco, CA, Charlotte Street Foundation and Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO and Puffin Foundation, New Jersey. leraleewhittle.com
PAUL SPRAWL has owned and operated his own full-time music career since Sept. 1997. He plays all over North America and several countries in Europe. He's got nine full-length recordings of his own songs (so far), the first on a German label and the rest on his own. He's also produced three full-length CDs for other artists. Born and raised in California, he and his dancer/choreographer wife are currently building a place for artists to find refuge and inspiration in Big Bend, Texas. He's been playing guitar, singing and writing songs since he was a boy. His music uniquely combines percussive guitar techniques with bottleneck, tapping, harmonica and a baritone voice. paulsprawl.com
MIZU DESIERTO is a dance-theatre artist, artistic director and farmer whose life=art explores themes of feminism, queerness, playful social deviance and regenerative land/culture. She is the co-founder of Portlands Water in the Desert, a hub of numerous projects, including: The Headwaters Theatre, Prior Day Farm & the annual festival that is Butoh College. Mizus artistic works have been commissioned by The City of Portland and Portland Center Stage and her projects have received funding from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Oregon Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland Development Commission, Oregon Arts Commission, The Multnomah County Cultural Coalition & The Oregon Cultural Trust. As an educator, she has worked as adjunct faculty in dance at Prescott College and Portland State University. Recently she was awarded her second fellowship residency at PLAYA for continued work with ÆVIUM, a multi-generational, multi-regional womens dance project with a 20 year history of collaboration.
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LocationPERFORMANCE WORKS NW (View)
4625 SE 67TH AVENUE
PORTLAND, OR 97206
United States
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