The renowned BodyCartography Project, on extended artistic residency with the Carleton Dance Program, presents the first phase of work on FELT ROOM, an immersive performance installation, in collaboration with the Carleton Semaphore Repertory Dance Company starting this Friday, Jan 13th. This is not the first time they collaborate. Olive Bieringa, who is part of the choreographic duo, worked on the Fall Semaphore Concert during Fall 2016 together with Carleton faculty members and students. This time, they will be working on an excitingly innovative and interactive installation project which will refresh the experience of both performers and audiences.
FELT ROOM premieres this Friday, Jan. 13 from 7 to 10 p.m., including a reception and panel discussion from 7-8 p.m. with dance professor Judith Howard and BodyCartography principals Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad. It will be host in the Kaemmer Family Gallery in the Weitz Center for Creativity’s Perlman Teaching Museum. Come experience this unique installation designed by Olive Bieringa of BodyCartography with guest dancers and members of the Carleton Semaphore Repertory Dance Company which seeks to engage both performers and audiences with a series of live dance performances.
BodyCartogrpahy Project describes FELT ROOM as “a dance designed to be felt more than seen, engaging performers and audiences in a practice of vibrant potentiality. In the darkness, audiences are offered an escape from a world of constant illumination. In FELT ROOM, energy, vibration, intimacy and imagination will be the primary materials at play. The work will operate in a specially designed sound and light installation, moving into and out of the darkness, transforming our perceptual field. Audiences are invited to gain deeper insight into the nature of reality as a deeply felt personal experience, one that can be at once disorienting, deeply therapeutic and profoundly energizing.”
One thing worth noting is that FELT ROOM has only female performers (including Anna Marie Shogren, Sarah Baumert, Arwen Wilder, Emma Barber, Thu Nguyen, Annie Richardson, Kathryn Peneyra, Hettie Stern, Alison Ball, and Erin Arntson). For those who are interested in exploring and learning more about female and space, Curator Sandra Teitge will give a talk “On Dance Constructions, Plastic, and Public Collections – female minds & bodies in museums” on January 19th at 6pm right before the 7pm performance.
The work in progress installation will be running live at the Perlman Teaching Museum at the following times:
Opening January Friday 13, 7 – 10 pm
Thursdays January 19- February 23, 7-9 pm*
Saturday January 28 February 18, 1- 3 pm*
Closing February 23, 7-9 pm