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Project Website: http://slought.org/content/11139/
"Dimensional Text" is an event series collaboration between Chain Arts and Slought Foundation. The dimensional text series is an investigation into the ways that language can be presented off the page. It presents language work that steps away from the book, the podium, or the conventional reading.
SEVEN VEILS (Poetry in Moving Media) is a multimedia dance-theater piece based on an adaptation of "Salome" by Thalia Field (Point and Line, New Directions 2000). Innovative choral music composed by Philadelphia-based Alexander DeVaron provides a complex and often humorous sonic atmosphere for Jamie Jewett's quirky amalgam of release, butoh and contemporary indonesian dance styles.
Thalia Field, Text. Jamie Jewett, Choreography/Video. Alex deVaron, Composition.
Sara Vasiliou, Dancer. Laurissa Backlin, Soprano. Gabrielle Rosse, Alto. Carlos Tovar, Tenor. Cailin Manson, Bass. Stage chorus: Deborah Richards, Kamili Feelings. Stage manager: Patrick Scanlon. Lighting designer: Mark O'Maley. Costume desinger: Pilar Limosner. Additional video help: Yi-Jiin Lin, Nicholas Freilich, Seema Goel. Special thanks: Abby Stranahan, Dave Ward, Barbara Reo.
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Thalia Field's collection, POINT AND LINE, was published in 2000 by New Directions. Her second book, INCARNATE: STORY MATERIAL is forthcoming with New Directions in 2004 and a multimedia novel, ULULU (SHRAPNEL SCENES), with film stills by Bill Morrison, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press in 2005. Thalia's performance writing and essays have been published in Theater magazine and she was a Senior Editor for several years at Conjunctions where she guest-edited an issue (#28) devoted to experimental music-theater. Thalia has taught at Bard College, Naropa University and currently teaches in Brown's Creative Writing program. In 1998 she co-founded the Summer Writing and Performance Project at Perseverance Theater in Juneau, AK.
Jamie Jewett holds a BA in Movement and Buddhist Studies from Naropa University and an MFA in Dance and Technology from the Ohio State University. His dance background includes intensive study of Butoh, and he has performed at the Joyce Theatre as a company member of Popo and The Go Go Boys, as well as works by Bebe Miller, David Rousseve and others. A certified teacher of the Shambhala Dharma Arts, Jewett’s work is deeply influenced by Eastern philosophy of composition. In 2000, Jewett was awarded a grant from USINDO (the US Indonesian Foundation) to apprentice with Suprapto Suryodarmo, a contemporary Indonesian Master of dance, ritual performance and installation art. Through this relationship, Jewett has taught and performed at a variety of festivals in Java, Bali, New York and Boulder. Jewett's intermedia dance, "Snowblind", was commissioned by University of Michigan's IMMEDIA festival in 2002 and his dance-film, "Auslander", was selected as part of Lincoln Center's Dance on Camera festival and the Wexner Center's Ohio Film and Video Festival.
Alexander deVaron holds degrees from Connecticut Wesleyan University and Indiana University, where his teachers included Alvin Lucier, Richard Winslow, Eugene Brien, and David Dzubay. His works have been performed In Canada, Europe and throughout the United States. He is the 2003 winner of
the Network For New Music Poetry Project competition, and his music has been featured by such ensembles as the Tufts New Music Ensemble, the Seattle New Music Ensemble and the New England Conservatory Cammerata.
Over the last twenty years, Mr. deVaron has combined his study of music with the study of Buddhism and meditation. Over the course of these years, he has worked closely with the composer Peter Lieberson to explore the meeting place of these two traditions. Currently he is pursuing a doctoral degree at Temple University, where he studies with Maurice Wright and
Richard Brodhead.
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