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Turbulence is a bodily response to economic crisis; an unstable performance under the influence of queer & Occupy.

Keith Hennessy & Circo Zero are seeking $11,000 to support the making and touring of Turbulence (a dance about the economy).

Turbulence is a bodily response to economic crisis; an unstable performance under the influence of queer & Occupy.

Challenging economic collapse and contraction, Turbulence is being made in 3 countries (USA, France, Germany) with an intentionally large (paid) cast that welcomes even more people into the project at each venue.

Spending time in diverse countries, economies and artistic contexts is central to the making of the work. European residency sites have generously offered half of all expenses for the cast to spend four weeks in creative residencies in Europe this summer. We're asking you - friends, fans, family - to support the other half.

Our biggest costs are transatlantic airfare and artist fees, which we are trying to hold at $600-700 per week for 10-14 artists.

Collaborating artists:
Emily Leap, Empress Jupiter, Gabriel Todd, Hana Erdman (Berlin/SF), Jassem Hindi (Paris), Jesse Hewit, Julie Phelps, Jorge Rodolfo De Hoyos, Laura Arrington,  Ruairí Donovan (Cork), Keith Hennessy plus guest artists at each venue.

Summer residencies:
Portland (PICA), San Francisco (CounterPULSE), France (Regards et Mouvements), Germany (Ponderosa)

Fall tour:
Portland (PICA/TBA Festival), Seattle (Velocity), San Francisco (YBCA), New York (NYLA).

Video links:
Turbulence in process, Europe 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwWQAR4TVvo

Turbulence in process, SF 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnWDQIMsT54

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Apr 12, 2012 - May 17, 2012

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    An email thank you filled with love and gratitude and your name on our website of thanks.

    Estimated delivery: Jun 2012
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    Homemade postcard signed by the cast and mailed from Portland! And your name on our website of thanks.

    Estimated delivery: Jun 2012
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    8x10" performance photo by Robbie Sweeney (and the homemade postcard, and name on our site).

    Estimated delivery: Aug 2012
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    Wax-sealed glass test-tube containing body hair of the cast, with accompanying signed certificate (and the homemade postcard, and name on our site).

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    Wax-sealed glass test-tube containing sweat of the cast collected after rehearsal or performance, with accompanying signed certificate (and the homemade postcard, and name on our site).

    Estimated delivery: Aug 2012
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    Wax-sealed glass test-tube containing blood of the cast, with accompanying signed certificate. (and the homemade postcard, and name on our site).

    Estimated delivery: Oct 2012
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    The set of 3 wax-sealed glass test-tubes containing body hair, sweat, and blood of the cast, with accompanying signed certificates (and the homemade postcard and name on our site).

    Estimated delivery: Oct 2012
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    1 backer

    Everything PLUS your choice: object or ephemera. Object: One of a kind artist book using Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, created on tour in multiple countries, by various members of the cast, journaling/drawing/cutouts/collage/memories...this will be rad. Ephemera: Keith Hennessy & two members of the cast will give you a one hour fake healing (somewhere in the intersections of bodywork, energy magic spell, child's play, experimental happening, and altered states). Also rad. $1000+ donors will receive all previous rewards (postcard, photo, hair, sweat, & blood test-tubes and website thanks).

    Estimated delivery: Oct 2012