Bricks and Bones, Installation by Tamara Albaitis with performance and collaboration by Breanna Rogers, Ashley Fine, Lily Ruffner, Tamara Albaitis and Delisa Myles     February 24, 2012, photos by Denise Elfenbein

It was an exciting project to collaborate with Tamara and the sound/sculpture installation she created at Prescott College Gallery at Sam Hill Warehouse. There were many new considerations; how to attach speakers to the body, how to move through the space while being plugged in, how to work with the visual, sound and conceptual elements to make the space come alive? How to honor the history of the historic Sam Hill Warehouse, built in 1903? How to listen to the whispers of memories and stories of a time long gone? How to integrate technology into the structure of the space and to our bodies? Fueled with these thoughts and questions the piece came together quickly. It felt like a beginning of a new territory where  the criss-crossing of ideas flowed like electricity.

from left Lily Ruffner, Delisa Myles, Breanna Rogers, Ashley Fine

Breanna RogersLily Ruffner

 

 

 

 

Here’s a few photos from our re-vamped performance under LaGuardia Bridge at Granite Creek Park. We  were part of a great day of music, dance, performance and beer tasting.

This duet with Bob Webb was a part of an evening of performance at Prior Day Farm in Portland, Oregon following a week of workshops with Hiroko Tamano of Harupin-Ha. Great fun to learn from Hiroko and an honor to share an evening of performance with Harupin-Ha at the farm.  Many thanks to Mizu Desierto who created the Local Culture Project. It’s always inspiring to see and be a part of what Mizu is concocting.   Photos courtesy of Minh Pham.

Breanna Rogers

INTO THE GARDEN WITH DANCE AND CAMERA  Workshop with Delisa Myles

August 14th, 10:00-1:00   Prior Day Farm, Portland, Oregon.

Observe, Listen, Absorb, Collect images, Move, Share. A morning of sinking into the sensual qualities of Prior Day Farm. What in the garden attracts your curiosity? Is it the blossoming, ripening, withering, composting? Or the colors, shapes, textures, plants, animals, tools? There will be prompts toward seeing and moving in relation with the place. Photographers who want to dance, dancers who want to make photos are welcome. Bring your digital camera and lap top to share images. Consider your costume.

Narration from Dream Rakers. Photos by Denise Elfenbein

Do you remember this story, the one I tell myself over and over?

It begins with a sound…

It begins at a time when everything was a part of the same wild shout! When there was no difference between root and hand, wing and leaf.

Do you remember this story? Pieces of it return to me now and again…dismembered, fractured, insecure.

They are beautiful words, strong words, words that could move mountains, but what was once one story has now turned into many voices. What was once whole, shattered, dismembered.

Alone….one part flew off, one part buried herself deep underground and one walked forward trying to remember where she came from. All of them searching for something that could never be named.