WEEK THREE: KRISTEN SMIAROWSKI, LISA GONZALES,
& JYL FEHRENKAMP Friday & Saturday, March 21 & 22, 8pm
Sunday, March 23, 7pm
$15 ($12 students, seniors)
Kristen Smiarowski
The Key Game (2008)
This premiere by Los Angeles based Kristen Smiarowski is a choreographic
response to Polish writer and Holocaust survivor Ida Fink’s
short story by the same name. This solo work is a concentrated glimpse
at human suffering, in which the dancer, via the characters in the
story, repetitively performs a game of survival that takes on the
psychological function of rehearsing imminent death. www.kristensmiarowski.com
Meditative and raw…chilling in its unflinching
simplicity -Santa Barbara Independent
Lisa Gonzales
the sound that escapes from light (2008)
Architects Dance Company co-founder Lisa Gonzales performs a new solo
investigating the conscious embodiment of the climate of New Orleans
and its surrounding swampland. Movement and language respond to the
complexity of this place, especially related to memory and loss. Rather
than concentrating on the devastation from Hurricane Katrina, Gonzales
looks at the ways the recent rebuilding of New Orleans disrupts conceptions
of place and self.
Jyl Fehrenkamp
perfex (2008)
Jyl Fehrenkamp is the host and curator of the Links Hall favorite
Poonie’s Cabaret. Her new piece perfex is
set in a miniscule kitchen of pink plastic and filled with freshly
baked blueberry muffins. Babies are birthed through an Easy-Bake-Oven
as the narrator navigates a domestic fantasy gone awry. Based loosely
on obvious gender stereotypes, Fehrenkamp seeks to explore the traditions
and transitions women undergo on route from woman to wife.
Compositionally, Fehrenkamp mixes unforced wit
and an artful trickle of unease...she excels at a quirky narrative
structure -Chicago Tribune
