This offering is an experiment in repatterning—an exploration of how we might return to performance material created pre-pandemic. What would it look like to develop a process that honors change, shifting needs, capacities, and boundaries of a creative team? Can we create a space to more deeply prioritize collective care and shared embodiment?
Chapter 6, repatterning offers the third iteration of Salvage Rituals, continuing the parallel practices of body-based ritual and myth making as strategies for sustaining. This iteration will present salvaged archives recounting the histories of this creative journey, the final chapter of the staying body and the leaving body mythology, and a re-visiting/reimaging of a physical sustaining score on a hexagonal platform embedded with piezoelectric material that transforms the mechanical stress from the performers’ bodies into electrical current, actively powering lights in the space. The evening will end with an invitation to a communal ritual/a little dance party.
Performers/collaborators include Jeffrey Azevedo, Alyza DelPan-Monley, Sophie Franco, Alice Gosti, Alexandra Harding, Clare Hatlo, Maria Manness, Erin McCarthy, Stefan Richmond, and Tim Smith-Stewart
Salvage Rituals is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by On the Boards (Seattle) in partnership with Risk/Reward (Portland) and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
A virtual event will be offered on April 7, 2022 at 7pm which will include a live stream recording of this event. Please select the "other events" link at the top of the page for tickets!
Covid-19 Protocol: As the regulations begin to loosen, we want to still maintain a covid-cautious environment so that all of us sharing space can feel comfortable.
- All audience members are required to provide proof of vaccination (or a negative covid test) and must wear masks for the duration of the performance
- Audience capacity is limited to 40 people
- There will be a moment towards the end of the performance that opens into a group dance and eventually a dance party. This is all optional, and we ask that everyone keeps their masks on during this section and maintains physical distance.
- Note that the seven performers will be unmasked during the performance. We have been testing regularly and if you feel compelled to test before coming to the space, that can help to ensure that we are not transmitting at the event.
Accessibility:
Base Experimental Arts + Space is accessible by ramp through our front doors, located in the southern end of Equinox. Equinox itself has a ramped entrance located at the north end of the building through the orange door. The southern entrance to Equinox has stairs. Base is not a scent-free space.
Base has one single stall restroom that is wheelchair accessible and a small kitchen area. Equinox has two gender neutral multi-stall restrooms and two single stall restrooms that are wheelchair accessible.