A dancer's Perspective on Performing in this Installation
From Megan Kurashige's blogpost:
This piece is a bit different. It takes a highly choreographed, visually complicated piece and unleashes it in a lavishly artificial environment that the audience gets to enter alongside the dancers. There's very little casualness about it. The set is an almost alien deconstruction of a grove of trees. Video projections spill across the floor. The score by Dan Wool is an enormous wash of sound spilling out of a battalion of speakers hidden way up with the lighting rig. The choreography is vigorous and absolutely set. The most human thing about the entire production is, I think, the wonderful Val Sinckler, who performs short stories by Jamaica Kincaid in such a warm, vivid way that you can't help but fall in love with them. But, somehow, the composed formality of the piece creates an almost forced intimacy with the audience. They enter the world of it with us, and the contrast between the piece and the unexpected closeness and volatility of an audience that can move around at will somehow administers a little shock of that delicious, high wire connection. It's a kind of magic.
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Our sincere thanks and your name listed in the program for the premiere performances of "The Water is Clear and Still."
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A Liss Fain Dance sticker, designed especially for Kickstarter backers. Plus: your name listed in the program.
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A signed Liss Fain Dance poster designed for the premiere of "The Water is Clear and Still" featuring the photography of RJ Muna. Plus: a sticker and your name listed in the program.
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A digital download of the original score for "The Water is Clear and Still" composed by Dan Wool. Plus: a signed poster, a sticker, and your name listed in the program.
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A digital download featuring audio interviews with Liss Fain and the collaborating artists about the creation of "The Water is Clear and Still." Plus: digital download of the original score, a signed poster, a sticker, and your name listed in the program.
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A performance DVD of "The Water is Clear and Still." Plus: digital downloads of audio interviews and the original score, a signed poster, a sticker, and your name listed in the program.
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Two tickets to one of the premiere performances of "The Water is Clear and Still" at Z Space in San Francisco, May 31-June 3, 2012. Plus: digital downloads of audio interviews and the original score, a signed poster, a sticker, and your name listed in the program.
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An archival quality print of one of the publicity photos taken by photographer RJ Muna for "The Water is Clear and Still." Plus: a DVD of the performance OR a pair of tickets, digital downloads of the audio interviews and the original score, a signed poster, a sticker, and your name listed in the program.
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Send us a written memory or story (one page maximum) and we will create an original phrase of movement based on your words using the same processes and ideas that lie behind "The Water is Clear and Still" and our outreach workshops with 826 Valencia. We will film ourselves dancing it and send the video to you. Plus: a print of an RJ Muna photo, a DVD of the performance OR a pair of tickets, digital downloads of the audio interviews and the original score, a signed poster, a sticker, and your name listed in the program.
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