HERE/NOW: Installment 6

DATE: Saturday, September 11, 2010
LOCATION: Open Flight Studio (OFS) 4205 University Way NE / 98105
SEATING: 730-8pm
SHOW: 8-945pm
ENTRY: $8 suggested donation
BEVERAGES: inspired selection of healthy cans and bottles
MERCHANDISE: packaged DVDs of past installments
CONTACT: christopherhydinger at hotmail dot com
BLOG: HERE/NOW
 
HERE/NOW is a quarterly improvisation-based performance program based on eight dancers/movement artists and eight musicians/sound artists being randomly paired and given eight minutes to improvise a duet together.

Past participants have included dancers/movement artists Mark Haim, Ellie Sandstrom, Ricki Mason, Marissa Rae Niederhauser, Aiko Kinoshita, Amelia Reeber, Michael Rioux, Amy O'Neal, Jürg Koch, Serge Gubelman, Juliet Waller Pruzan, Tahni Holt, KT Niehoff, Ezra Dickinson and Haruko Nishimura and musicians/sound artists Wally Shoup, Stuart Dempster, Christopher DeLaurenti, Jesse Canterbury, Scott Colburn, Monica Schley, Greg Campbell, Ivory Smith, Angelina Baldoz, Jeffrey Huston, Brian Cobb, Chris Stover, Paris Hurley, Tom Baker and Susie Kozawa among many more of the Pacific Northwest's most respected and active artists.

GOALS
The following five goals were felt to be vital to the invention of this program:
1) produce a quarterly program featuring an artistically relevant and community-engaging experience
2) facilitate a collaboration between dancers/movement artists and musicians/sound artists in a real-time setting so that personal and professional connections may be forged
3) set the stage for inter-community strengthening by which the dance/movement art and music/sound art communities' built-in audiences have the opportunity to be introduced to one another in a comfortable yet charged setting
4) produce a means by which OFS can grow into an increasingly conducive venue for the rehearsal and public presentation of all variety of performance-based work
5) facilitate a program through which focused attention may be given to the idea that willingly experiencing randomness enriches the fertile ground from which life itself develops

CREATIVE DIRECTORS / CURATORS
Christopher Hydinger, Paige Barnes