Laban Inspired Dance and Ophelia

This Thursday, Friday and Saturday (6/26 - 6/28) are the last days of show for Taffety Punk's run of Enter Ophelia: Distracted at CHAW.

"Enter Ophelia, distracted combines the striking intensity of actor Kimberly Gilbert with the refined and investigative choreography of Erin Mitchell, immersed in a sea of music and sound to expose the inner and outer workings of Ophelia's self."

As a bonus, on Saturday night (6/28) I am presenting a re-worked excerpt of my piece Space-Time:

"Event Horizon (solo) and Gravity (duet) are from a suite of dances called Space-Time that explores the relationship between astrophysical phenomena and human relationships. Energetic vacillations, spatial foci, and the images we create when we make decisions, form relationships, break ties, and move each other through life drive these pair of dances through space.  The creation of Space-Time is the creative arm of Katie’s heuristic research on Laban’s theories of the flow effort, his theories on its psychophysical manifestations and Sopoci Drake’s specific theories on their connection to 4-dimensional space that she’s been developing since 2009."

I'd like to invite all Labanites out to analyze the show.

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Space-Time

COME SEE MY NEW PIECE! Space-Time created on UW-Milwaukee dancers for UW-Milwaukee's Winterdances 2013
January 24-27, 2013 in the Mainstage Theatre, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd. Milwaukee, WI 53211
7:30pm Thurs-Sat; 2pm Sun

Featuring choreography from fourth New Work Award winner Cynthia Gutierrez-Garner, exploring Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings;” Dance Faculty Luc Vanier choreographing to Bela Bartok’s “The Miraculous Mandarin” performed live by Kamil Tokarski and alumn Johanna Schilling; Katie Sopoci-Drake presents “Space Time"; Simone Ferro reconstructing “Magnetic Field” with ex-Pilobolus company member Edwin Olvera and Milwaukee Ballet choreographer Petr Zahradnícek represents "Fall to Rise" both from FALL(ing).

About Space-Time
The title section of a larger suite of dances, Space-Time explores the notion of Rudolf von Laban’s theories on Flow and its relationship to the 4th dimension known as space-time, the movement of celestial bodies, human relationships and the surprising connections we found between them. 

This final group work, which was developed with and tailored to the UWM dance students, is focused on representing the motion and energy of four dimensions within a three-dimensional perspective.  We’ve played with detailed material that collapses down on itself and is constantly being drawn back in to the body versus free-flowing material that wants to reach out, larger, and wants to drift away.  How these scientific inspirations seem to mimic human interaction is no coincidence.  Take an image from your memory of a group of people and how they physically reacted during a time of excitement or sorrow, of triumph or defeat. Then watch our little creation and see what happens.