AXIS Dance Company and inkBoat Present ODD (11/12 - 11/14)
Organization:
AXIS Dance Company & InkBoat
Category:
Performing Arts
Geographical Area:
Oakland
Start
Date:
11/12/2010
End Date:
11/14/2010
Start Time:
8:00 PM
End Time:
3:15 PM
Event
Info:
AXIS Dance Company & InkBoat presents:
AXIS Dance Company and inkBoat Present ODD
DATE/TIME: Nov 12-13, 8pm to 9:15pm and Nov 14, 2pm to 3:15pm
LOCATION: Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts 1428 Alice Street Oakland, CA, 94612 510-625-0110 http://www.oaklandnet.com/parks/facilities/mcca.asp
COST/REGISTRATION: Fri, November 12 @ 8pm (Target Family Night Performance), all tickets $10 Sat, November 13th @ 8pm and Sun, November 14th @ 2pm - Tickets $22 Seniors, Students & Persons with Disabilities $15 Youth under 14 years $10. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/123526
DESCRIPTION: For the first time ever inkBoat dancers will share the stage with AXIS Dance Company, one of the world's most acclaimed and innovative ensembles of performers with and without disabilities. The resulting world-premiere collaboration, ODD, is a series of dances choreographed by inkBoat Artistic Director Shinichi Iova-Koga, with musical accompaniment by famed cellist/composer Joan Jeanrenaud (formerly of the Kronos Quartet) and musician/vocalist Dohee Lee.
Inspired by the paintings of Odd Nerdrum, the Scandinavian painter renowned for his emulation of old-master techniques and textures, and his devotion to the depiction of flesh, ODD reflects "the darker colors of the palette, some deliberately provocative, yet not without clownishness, care and tenderness as well," says Iova-Koga.
With echoes of Rembrandt and Caravaggio, Nerdrum plumbs the depths of the human condition, exploring themes of loneliness, fear, brutality, hatred, sexuality, birth, death, and degradation with a precision that borders on the hallucinatory.
When asked about working with AXIS and the opportunities and challenges it provides, Iova-Koga was blunt. "I am as exacting with the disabled dancers as I am the non-disabled. The difference is, I have more to learn from them - where is their 'ground,' is it in the chest or tailbone? And I work to put myself somewhere in their place."
Judith Smith, Artistic Director of AXIS, was drawn to Nerdrum's color palette and the material because the "subject matter is often dark," and the potential for using the light, gestures, and shapes in the paintings and translating that to movement. "It's a very different vocabulary than we're used to demanding physically because the movement is very subtle and requires great focus, but also very demanding emotionally and intellectually."
About AXIS Dance Company & InkBoat: AXIS Dance Company is one of the world's most acclaimed and innovative ensembles of performers with and without disabilities.
inkBoat is a collaboration of artists whose performance style is a hybrid of traditional and experimental forms weaved with Physical Theater and Japanese Butoh Dance.
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