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Dear Friends:
Wishing you peace, health and defiant joy in the New Year. Please find updates on our projects below. Thank you as always for your good wishes, care and support.
Sincerely,
Dahlia
New Work:
In researching our next project, from, we visited the site of Topaz Prison Camp in Delta, Utah, where composer Loren Kiyoshi Dempster's relatives were incarcerated during World War II. Special thanks to the Topaz Museum for organizing our tour of the museum and site. Here is a one minute snapshot of our visit and experiments, and here is a 360 Virtual Reality film of one of Loren's compositions made on site (turn your phone sideways for full screen and move your body around for virtual reality effect, or click and drag mouse on desktop). Loren has created a stunning score for this work, incorporating sounds recorded on the site and creating a barbed wire cello instrument. We hope to share it with you at an upcoming work in progress showing this year, stay tuned for dates and locations.
With this work we continue our investigation into belonging and non-belonging, deeply personal histories, and our nation’s current and recurring debates over bans, building walls and keeping the “other” out. We ask, "How can we offer destabilizing notions of identity to a world that historically prefers to categorize, reduce, capture, pigeon-hole, dehumanize? Can we recognize the unfamiliar as an extension of ourselves? Can the concept of “from” be placeless, inclusive, evade assumptions and vibrate with potential?” We envision this work having multiple manifestations, as a live performance, as an installation and as a multimedia exhibit.
Upcoming Performance:
January 25th 2018
6:30 p.m.
Alabama School of Fine Arts
1800 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd
Birmingham, AL
Click here for Program Information
We are thrilled to return to Alabama to perform as part of the Alabama Dance Council's annual festival. This is Dahlia's fourth trip to Alabama over the last year; she has performed throughout the state in galleries, schools, festivals and venues as a guest of the Council alongside phenomenal visiting and local artists. One of many moments that has been reverberating in my mind was when Dan and Ralph Isaac shared, "We have two ears and one mouth, so we should do double the listening."
Additional Projects:
Dahlia had the pleasure of working with two amazing filmmakers this year. This past summer she was cast in Abigail Severance's film The Edge of the Flat Earth, screening dates TBA in 2019. Also, while in residence at Boston University, she worked with filmmaker Roberto Mighty for the Favorite Poem Project, reading Make Believe by Jaswinder Bolina. When the kids are asleep, Dahlia has been playing around with film as well. In this stop motion series, each 40 second take (500 frames each) features a different choreographic attempt to stand up. More attempts to come.
Uh Oh Trio
Well, thank you for taking the time to read all the way down to here! Dahlia, Margaret and Loren have chosen to name our collaboration the Uh Oh Trio. Website currently under construction. We adapt our sound and movement projects to alternative spaces, reaching new audiences we work in the modes of live performance, installation and multimedia exhibits. Our residency activities including master classes/workshops across multiple disciplines and departments including but not limited to dance/film/art/history/communications/ exploring themes of diaspora, belonging and non-belonging. To inquire about bringing this work or supporting future performances at your campus, venue or institution, please contact us.
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