//Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art.//
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//Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art.// |
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Naked StagesNew Performance WorksOctober 19-21 & November 9-11, 2006 |
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Media Advisory/Photo Opportunity Mirror, MirrorA Naked Stages Performance by Katie Herron – November 9-11, 2006
WHAT:Emerging into the Twin Cities performance scene less than two years ago, Katie Herron stakes her claim in the solo market with Mirror, Mirror, a movement-based performance that takes us through the looking glass of the media’s image of female perfection, as part of the Naked Stages program at Intermedia Arts on November 9-11, 2006. Herron addresses the non-reality of the image of perfection we find ourselves mimicking–sometimes in horrific ways–using personal narrative, multiple-angle projections and an eclectic soundscape. Mirror, Mirror breaks through the media reinforced commercialization of the female body to ask how we find true beauty and questions how we define ourselves, how we are defined and how we attempt to regain our inherent strength as women. Under the guidance of Shawn McConneloug, Herron bases her exploration in movement influenced by martial arts, yoga, and contemporary dance. Katie Herron is a Minneapolis born and raised performance artist. A member of the Pangea World Theater ensemble, Herron makes her solo debut through the Naked Stages program. Herron was trained as a theatre actor and has studied movement styles from around the world to influence the way she creates her work. Herron has trained in ballet, gymnastics and yoga, as well as with South Indian Kalaripayattu martial artist Shaji John, DAH Teatar in Serbia and the Flinders Drama Centre in South Australia. Herron's performance is part of a double bill, also featuring Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe's Dirty the Bones-On Being White and Other Lies (History as Medicine). Q&A sessions follow each performance with a reception following the Saturday, October 21 performance. Tickets are $12 and $6 for Intermedia Arts members, students, seniors and youth under 17. For the most up-to-date information and to learn how to purchase tickets, call Intermedia Arts at (612) 871-4444 or visit www.intermediaarts.org. Intermedia Arts is located at 2822 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55408. WHEN/WHERE:Thursday-Saturday, November 9-11, 2006 PHOTO/INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES:Digital photos, audio, video, interview and photo opportunities are available upon request. ABOUT NAKED STAGES:Naked Stages, sponsored by Intermedia Arts with support from the Jerome Foundation, is an intensive performance research program that gives artists space to dig deep into creative process. Now in it's eighth year, the program, developed and directed by artist and curator Eleanor Savage, is designed to give artists a supportive environment for building their performance and production skills while creating a new performance art piece. The showings with an audience are the final step in the program, giving the artists a true assessment of how their ideas are communicating through the form. Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art. CONTACT:Theresa Sweetland
Naked Stages: Performance Art Created by Bold Artists for Adventurous AudiencesOctober 19-21 & November 9-11, 2006Intermedia Arts How does someone raised conservative evangelical fundamentalist Christian grow up to be a queer liberal vagabond artist? Beyond denial and shame, how can white people confront white supremacy? Has digital communication eroded genuineness and intimacy in human relationships? With media reinforced commercialization of the female body, how do we find true beauty? Join us at Intermedia Arts as we seek answers to these questions and more at two double bills of new work by untried but true artists: Naked Stages 1 on October 19- 21, 2006 features Kim Thompson in timeline autobiographia: everything that is..., a performance memoir tracing her history from being left on a doorstep in south Korea to being raised in a conservative Christian family to leaving home and coming out as queer, and Elliot Durko Lynch's For Your Eyes Only, which integrates media, movement and object theater in a scrutiny of the digital river's constant stream of communiqués with the lost art of letter writing. On November 9-11, 2006, Intermedia Arts presents Naked Stages 2 with Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe's Dirty the Bones: On Being White and Other Lies (History as Medicine), a ritualized performance drawing on 37 years of living as a white person in a white supremacist society and Katie Herron in Mirror, Mirror, which takes us through the looking glass of the media's image of female perfection. These two double bills are the culmination of the artists' work in the Naked Stages program, an intensive performance research program that gives artists space to dig deep into creative process. Now in it's seventh year, the program, developed and directed by artist and curator Eleanor Savage, is designed to give artists a supportive environment for building their performance and production skills while creating a new performance art piece. The showings with an audience are the final step in the program, giving the artists a true assessment of how their ideas are communicating through the form. Audiences and artists alike question the performance art: What is this ambiguous form that calls to mind everything from Karen Finley's notorious chocolate smearing rants to the durational marathons of Forced Entertainment? In the essay "Fluid Landscapes," by Lois Keidan and Daniel Brine, they capture the spirit of the form:
NAKED STAGES PERFORMANCES
All performances take place at Intermedia Arts and begin at 8 PM. There are Q&A sessions after each performance; a reception will follow the Saturday performances. Intermedia Arts is located at 2822 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55408. Tickets are $12 ($6 members, students, seniors and youth under 17). For more information or to make reservations, call (612) 871-4444 or e-mail info@intermediaarts.org.
Naked Stages 1: October 19-21, 2006 at 8 PM Naked Stages 2: November 9-11, 2006 at 8 PM Naked Stages is supported by the Jerome Foundation. Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art. CONTACT:Theresa SweetlandPhone: 612-874-2813 E-mail: theresa@intermediaarts.org http://www.intermediaarts.org/ |