About this project
We will interview people from as far across the U.S. as we can and create an internal and external mapping system of HOME and what it means to Americans, international visitors, and to us as artists.
Kinesis Project's home is New York City, but the reasons why are so varied...and the actuality of a true sense of home is so unusual - We need to know, what makes others feel "at home".
The choreography will stem directly from what people say - movement will be generated from the stories told, and text will be written based on various interviews and interactions.
Performances will be in places as varied as we can get permission for - Beaches, Rooftops, Forests, Parks, City Streets, Small Town Centers....really, its up to you, and what you tell us!
Our Kickstarter fund will give us the money to travel to people to interview them, give us a budget to create the dances from the vocabulary taken from the interviews, pay the fees involved in permits to dance in unusual spaces and the ability to document the dances through film and photos.
At the end of this new and exciting process there will be Performances, a Photo Book and a Film.
Join us in the Mapping fun!
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the Option to tell us in 20 words or less what kind of place feels like HOME to you. (ex: "I feel most at home sitting and looking out over moving water")
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a Real-Live Postcard from a spot someone thinks of as HOME.
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a PDF of the final MAPPING HOME Picture Book and TWO Real-Live Postcards from spots someone thinks of as HOME.
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a PDF of the final MAPPING HOME Picture Book, and one completely unique postcard (over time of course!) from COMPANY MEMBERS about spots they think of as HOME.
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The Real-Live MAPPING HOME Picture Book for your naked coffee table!! And a postcard from a spot that is like what YOU think of as HOME.
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the Real-Live MAPPING HOME Picture Book and completely unique Postcards from the Company.
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One TICKET to a performance of MAPPING HOME of your choice (travel not included) and the ability to SUGGEST SOMEONE for us to interview. (ALL REWARDS FROM $50 and up also get a photo book!)
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The ability to SUGGEST SOMEONE we should interview (can be you or someone else) ADD ONE GESTURE that should be used in the dance and ONE TICKET to a performance.
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Two TICKETS to a performance, the ability to SUGGEST SOMEONE we should interview and TWO gestures to be used in the dance.
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TICKETS, the opportunity to be interviewed OR suggest someone we should interview AND an mp4 of the short video created for MAPPING HOME.
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TICKETS, the opportunity to be interviewed OR suggest someone we should interview AND TWO tickets to Kinesis Project's MAPPING DINNER Celebration in January 2011.
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TICKETS, and the opportunity to be interviewed OR suggest someone we should interview, TWO Tickets to Kinesis Project's MAPPING DINNER in January 2011 AND a copy of the DVD made for MAPPING HOME.
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Listed as a Kinesis Project underwriter in ALL MATERIALS for MAPPING HOME as well as TICKETS, the opportunity to be interviewed OR suggest someone we should interview, TWO Tickets to Kinesis Project's MAPPING DINNER in January 2011 AND a copy of the DVD made for MAPPING HOME.
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Connected as Melissa Riker (843 friends)
Melissa Riker is a freelance modern dancer, aerialist, choreographer and the Director of Kinesis Project dance theatre.
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Kinesis Project is a dance theatre company founded by Melissa Riker.
The company produces dance concerts, facilitates educational programs and creates site specific performances with diverse communities.
Kinesis Project produces work designed to make the soul dance and the feet fly.
We are pushing the boundaries of what changes space, and people, by placing movement and stillness in unusual and inspiring places.
