The Kinetic Kitchen returns
this time featuring:
Kelly Radermacher
Kency Roberson
Kinetic Evolutions
Vessel Performance (Dustin Haug and Tamin Totzke)
Life has a tendency to stain. Those sticky spills that accompany uswhile forging through messy challenges cling to our personality, ourmoods and our state of mind. Kelly Radermacher delivers movement andvideo oozing with the kind of raw reactionary emotion that occursduring dramatic moments in an ordinary day and difficult transitions inlife. Quirky and blotted characters embrace the stains of on the frontof life's shirt while coloring the human's ability to persevere throughinsignificant yet trying times. Using white tableson the stage as bothvideo projection surfaces and dancing tools, Radermacher sculpts ablank canvas in which the colorful and relatable characters cansplatter and smear their unbalanced emotions. Woven with saturatedcolors, screaming emotions and gaping banality, Radermacher'scollection of images bathe your mind, bleed into your memory andimprint stains on your heart.
The concept for Kency Roberson's choreography originates from a number he initially conceived for a cabaret setting, but performed on the stage at Intermedia Arts for BCE 2003, titled Rough Guide to Negrodom. Buttons showcases dance ensemble fusing modern, salsa and hip hop. Thank full explores a series of solos enacting interpersonal loves and losses.
Tamin Totzke and Dustin Haug of Vessel Performance, moved back home to Minnesota in August2007 after 10 years of living and performing on the west coast. They have shown work at Bryant Lake Bowl, The Bottling House Theater, The Ritz and most recently The Walker's Choreographer's Evening. They co-teach contact improvisation at Zenon School of Dance and have been found traveling through Midwest colleges, offering their performance lab, Body in Space/Space in Body.
Riveted to the physicality of weight-based movement, Tamin and Dustin disorient themselves from the beginning and find out that there is no end. They employ the genius of contact improvisation and the specificity of set choreography to develop personal dialogs of texture and movement. They are interested in deconstructing audience-performer relationships through the 'right now' presence of improvisation and the play of proximity. Their work focuses on developing an intuitive ecology of space where invented organisms cycle through life, breath,growth, death, and rebirth.