'The Way You Look (at me) Tonight' (World Premiere)
Organization:
Jess Curtis/Gravity
Category:
Performing Arts
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
9/29/2016
End Date:
10/9/2016
Start Time:
8:00 PM
End Time:
10:00 PM
Event
Info:
Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 8pm to 10pm Oct. 6-8, 8pm to 10 pm: Oct. 2 and Oct. 9, 7pm to 9 pm
Jess Curtis/Gravity today announces the World Premiere of a new performance work, The Way You Look (at me) Tonight, September 29-October 9 at CounterPulse in San Francisco, co-presented by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and CounterPulse.
The Way You Look (at me) Tonight is a social sculpture a sensory journey for two performers and audience. Dancing, singing, telling stories and asking questions, leading UK disabled artist Claire Cunningham and international choreographer and performer Jess Curtis combine performance, original live music, and video to wrestle (sometimes literally) with important questions about our habits and practices of perceiving each other and the world. In collaboration with noted author and philosopher of perception Dr. Alva Noe, video artist Yoann Trellu, composer Matthias Herrmann, and dramaturge Luke Pell, Cunningham and Curtis perform this evening-length duet excavating their own ways of seeing each other-as a man and a woman of different ages, bodies, and backgrounds.
A choreographic and performance collaboration, The Way You Look (at me) Tonight experiments with the potential of different physicalities while exploring author and UC Berkeley philosophy professor Noe's central idea: consciousness is not something that happens inside us or to us. It is something we do. The result is a work in which both audience and performers are challenged to embrace different perceptions. Additionally,, the audience will be seated within the performance and as part of the action.
"I'm interested in how we perform our lives, how we look at each other and how we allow ourselves to be seen," says Curtis. "Our physicalities can shape the ways we perceive the world around us. How much can we affect the way we see others? Can we learn to see across lines of difference in new ways?"
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