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3WD14 #3 – Bay Requiem

Monday, March 17th , 2014 Noon to 1:30pm at Hayward Shoreline Interprative Center, 4901 Breakwater Ave. Hayward and online at www.water-wheel.net in conjunction with Waterwheel World Water Day Symposium 2014.

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This March the Milkbar is pleased to be collaborating with Australia’s Waterwheel project (www.water-wheel.net) to host 2 live “nodes” of their weeklong global online festival, World Water Day 2014, about the intersection of art and water.

The Bay Requiem project is a new work-in-progress by choreographer Nina Haft, Mary Armentrout, Ian Winters and Lauren Elder. The project began with a filmed performance at the Hayward shoreline during the King tides of Jan 2014, and continues in a relayering of performance material and visual material online, and, on the Hayward shoreline.

For full 3WD14 Symposium program: http://blog.water-wheel.net/2014/01/3WDS14-program.html

about the showing – Open Rehearsal for Bay Requiem – Session #3 of Symposium

March 17, 2014 at 12n, PST

Location: Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center, Hayward, CA

A core group of dancers has begun working together with common questions and concerns about water at heart. Our event is an open rehearsal, a window into how we exploring questions through movement improvisation. This event is part of our creative research for a future immersive dance theatre event on the Bay shoreline.

Also on tap, you will see footage from our video shoot during King Tide 2014 at the Hayward shoreline.

 

Improvisational structures:

  • Predictability vs. unpredictability – we don’t know when and how much water will come. This makes it hard to feed ourselves;
  • Displacement – too much water or not enough forces us to move, adapt or die. This happens to plants, animals and people, entire cultures and their histories;
  • Drought vs. flood – what it is to have too much or not enough water. How we hold that experience alone and together.
  • We will move and talk about what we are doing. We welcome your questions.