murmur

CREDITS

Premiere: Chateau La Coste
Le Puy Saint Reparade, France 2018

Co-created:  D. Chase Angier & Jennifer Salk
with dancers

Dancers:  Jo Blake
          Beth Graczyk
          Sean O’Bryan

Videography: Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge
Editing: Jeff Curtis

Inspired by the unique landscape, art and architecture of Chateau La Coste, in Provence, France, Murmur (2018) added live performance to the existing conversation between landscape, art, light and architecture.

This dance was made possible by the Floyd and Delores Jones Endowment, Alfred University, and Chateau La Coste.

HELLO!?

Description

Inspired by the architecture of Gould Hall at The University of Washington, D. Chase Angier and Jennifer Salk created a poetic site-specific performance exploring the difficulties of finding love in a time of complicated lifestyles, technological distraction and diminishing public spaces. During the performance, the audience was brought to various vantage points throughout the four-story atrium to watch a man and woman’s struggle to come together. This central story was complimented by other dances being performed by a large cast of dancers, and duets performed on staircases. Powerfully contrasting experiences of proximity and distance—between performers, and between performers and their audience— within the open concrete and glass environment made for a visually striking and emotionally resonant dance work.

credits

Co-Created by D. Chase Angier & Jennifer Salk
in collaboration with the performers.

Music:    Ryan Adams, The Mamas and the Papas

Hello Man:   Wilson Mendieta
Hello Woman:   Brenna Monroe-Cook
Stair Man:   Dylan Ward
Stair Woman:   Hallie Scott

Cast:  Caitlin Bennett
       Maddie Mae Bennet
       Mike Feng
       Imana Gunawan
       Shi Li
       Austin Nguyen
       Holly Miligan
       Mackenzie Miller
       Hannah Old
       Hanul Seo
       Jeremy Sok Won Kim
       Sophia Wu
       Alice Yunjung Woo

Eyes of the skin

CREDITS

Premiere (2011) - Version I: Meany Studio Theater, University of Washington, Seattle
Made possible, in part by the Petersen Endowed Fellowship

Henry Art Gallery (2012)
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Partially funded by the Henry Art Gallery, and the Petersen Endowed Professorship

City Arts Review

Cast: Alethea Alexander Margaret Jones
Siena Duman Ang Juliet Kiester
Kris Brackebusch Courtney Lawson
Elise Butterfield Stephanie Liapis
Damian Cade Nicole Rover
Brie Chun Hallie Scott
Cheryl Delostrinos Emma Strong
Sruti Desai Rosa Visser
Kimberly Han Hendri Walujo
I-Chuan Hsiao

Choreography:  Jennifer Salk in collaboration with the dancers

Media (Wall) Design:  Maja Petric, PhD

Music:  Frederick Chopin, Tibetan Gong, Heroin, Paul Moore, Empire Penguins and icebergs breaching, as recorded by Douglas Quinn

Lighting:  Amiya Brown

This work is based on the book Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, by Juhani Pallasmaa and inspired by media and light artist, Maja Petric’s extraordinary work that explores the sublime. What is at once beautiful and decaying, soothing and deeply disturbing?

Re-imaginings: 

Version II: (Commissioned) Mimar Sinan Conservatory, Istanbul, Turkey 2011
Made possible by the Fulbright Specialist Roster grant

Begin Again

Dancers: Rosy Gentle, Imana Gunawan, Vivian Ho, Carlyn Kane (understudy), Callie Nissing, Michael O’Neal, Sean O’Bryan, Megan Stutesman, Charlotte Schoen

Trailer

Trailer below featuring video by Martin Jarmick.

https://www.martinjarmick.com/begin-again

interactive dance media

Anfractuous is an interactive dance media artwork that invites viewers to activate the choreography through choice and play. It is a collaboration with Media Artist, Martin Jarmick, composer Paul Matthew Moore and dance artists Imana Gunawan, Natalie Fernandi, Sean O’Bryan and Mike Majinn O’Neal. It is funded, in part, by a Mellon Creative Artist Fellowship grant, the Petersen Endowed Professorship fund and the Kreielsheimer Grant for Research Excellence in the Arts. The project is currently in development with early system design, visuals, cinematography tests, and interaction currently being explored. Click on the itch.io link above left to go to our Vlog and test out the current “World.” Comments can be made to help us by creating an account with itch.io (no obligation, fee, and possible Spam will result). Thanks for going on this adventure with us!

Similar to a game, the piece is experienced through a mobile device or computer. Video panels are arranged on the screen and display various angles, spaces and moving bodies and audiences search for visual and sonic relationships between the videos. Audiences engage multiple senses to author their own flow and order of the dance with each experience.

More info at https://www.martinjarmick.com/anfractuous

choreographic gifts

Part of the Choreographic Gifts project inspired by http://www.foryou.productions/artistsandelders

One Beer Before I go (2021)

Conceived, directed, and co-choreographed by Jennifer Salk

Collaborators:  

Dancer/co-choreographer:
Megan Sellman

Cinematographer and editor: Warren Woo

With music composed and played by Miles Davis, and music written by Gerald Marks
and Seymour Simons “All of Me”, played by Charlie Parker. Mixed by Paul Matthew Moore.