Seen Open - celebrate one year with us!

March 2009 will mark the one-year anniversary of Seen Performance's first performance together and our beginnings as a performance collective.

To celebrate, we will be gathering at Rèst Âü Ránt, a local favorite in Astoria, for drinks and cheer (which we could all use more of these days!). We'll perform a work from The Party Project (it is a party after all) and be open for questions about Seen Performance, our work and visions. We'll also be selling some artwork to help raise funds for our project These Walls Sing.

Please save the date and join us when it comes around!

Seen Open - Annual Anniversary + Benefit Party
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7-10p
Rèst Âü Ránt
30-01 35th Ave in Astoria
Free with donations to support the creation of new work warmly accepted.



Rèst Âü Ránt has a rich wine and beer menu, and their food is fantastic. They'll be doing beer flights for us, so come ready to try 'em all!

We're looking forward to celebrating with you - see you March 10!

Seen Open is, you guessed it, open to all and free with donations warmly accepted. All donations support the creation of new work. Not in town? Show your love for Seen Performance with a donation of any size, here.

Seen Performance is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Seen Performance may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Landing - rehearsal 2

Tonight we had a small Landing rehearsal, with Lydia, Angela, Danita, and myself.

Rehearsing with David's music is always a truer experience for the dancers (and me), but we did our best to work with the howling wind and some ambient Aphex Twin.

I failed to capture any video because I was wrapped up in watching -- and considering which nuances to take hold of and shape. The choreography component in this work is surprisingly fragile. It tinkers precariously between thoughtful and elegant and just a big ol' mess. While performing, the dancers make several choices within the parameters I've set up, and in rehearsal we get to see what works and what doesn't. They continually reinvestigate the movement for themselves, and I stay on the outside making notes on how things "read."

Today, for example, the dancers's choices kept spreading them out in space, which dilutes the effect of the cannon (they perform the base choreography in cannon) and makes the space feel alienating. Not to mention that they would have been falling out of the edges of the slinky "forest". We got the piece back to a tight, intimate spacing. The dancers start in the same triangle with roughly three-foot spacing, but with the focus on the small space, they navigate through each other as much as they do through the slinkys and this draws the eye into little moments of unison, intimacy, and solitude. It is delightful to see the choreography shape up in this way. There are definitely choices that work and choices that don't, nonetheless, we will continue to play with the choreography existing only as a structure to explore in performance, rather than a strictly set piece.

Seen Open - celebrate one year with us!

March 2009 will mark the one-year anniversary of Seen Performance's first performance together and our beginnings as a performance collective.

To celebrate, we will be gathering at Rèst Âü Ránt, a local favorite in Astoria, for drinks and cheer (which we could all use more of these days!). We'll perform a work from The Party Project (it is a party after all) and be open for questions about Seen Performance, our work and visions. We'll also be selling some artwork to help raise funds for our project These Walls Sing.

Please save the date and join us when it comes around!

Seen Open - Annual Anniversary + Benefit Party
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7-10p
Rèst Âü Ránt
30-01 35th Ave in Astoria
Free with donations to support the creation of new work warmly accepted.



Rèst Âü Ránt has a rich wine and beer menu, and their food is fantastic. They'll be doing beer flights for us, so come ready to try 'em all!

We're looking forward to celebrating with you - see you March 10!

Seen Open is, you guessed it, open to all and free with donations warmly accepted. All donations support the creation of new work. Not in town? Show your love for Seen Performance with a donation of any size, here.

Seen Performance is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Seen Performance may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Landing - rehearsal 2

Tonight we had a small Landing rehearsal, with Lydia, Angela, Danita, and myself.

Rehearsing with David's music is always a truer experience for the dancers (and me), but we did our best to work with the howling wind and some ambient Aphex Twin.

I failed to capture any video because I was wrapped up in watching -- and considering which nuances to take hold of and shape. The choreography component in this work is surprisingly fragile. It tinkers precariously between thoughtful and elegant and just a big ol' mess. While performing, the dancers make several choices within the parameters I've set up, and in rehearsal we get to see what works and what doesn't. They continually reinvestigate the movement for themselves, and I stay on the outside making notes on how things "read."

Today, for example, the dancers's choices kept spreading them out in space, which dilutes the effect of the cannon (they perform the base choreography in cannon) and makes the space feel alienating. Not to mention that they would have been falling out of the edges of the slinky "forest". We got the piece back to a tight, intimate spacing. The dancers start in the same triangle with roughly three-foot spacing, but with the focus on the small space, they navigate through each other as much as they do through the slinkys and this draws the eye into little moments of unison, intimacy, and solitude. It is delightful to see the choreography shape up in this way. There are definitely choices that work and choices that don't, nonetheless, we will continue to play with the choreography existing only as a structure to explore in performance, rather than a strictly set piece.