
Control Quartz
LEIMAY Fellows Showcase
Thea Little and Artists
LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES 2015: SOAK
Walk through sea urchins, see and hear their endangerment – their fragility. A voice speaks in a business tone, persuades the audience to move their seats. Sounds of control emerge. Do the dancers fall under its spell or do they deny it? What are sounds of control, images of control, movement of control? What makes control bad and what makes it good? This work researches self-control, ideas that control, obsessive compulsive control, control over people, control to help people and the kind of control that serves oneself. A capitalist yet humorous voice of time audibly attempts to control the when and the how long of sections while seeking to construct a balanced and full “dance” which is ironically a safety net or metaphor for comfort.
Documentation
Object Identifier
AMP.PRG.2015.3000.4ID number
3000.4Year Created
2015Date Created
20150603Date Recorded
20150603Performance dates
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Premiere Venue
CAVE Home Of LEIMAY6/3-4/2015
58 Grand St - Brooklyn, New York, NY
Premiere Venue specific dates
Conceived and Directed by:Thea Little
Dancers, Improvisers, and Collaborators: Laura Bartczak,Ariane Bernier,Adi Eytan, Emelie Hedvall, Butch Merigoni, and Holly Mitchell
Projected painting “Slick Move” by: Niki Singleton and Collaborators Sculpture “Up Down Pipe” by: Elisa Soliven
Music recorded and composed by Thea Little
LEIMAY Artistic Directors: Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya
SOAK Managing Producer: Raul Zbengheci
SOAK Production Stage Manager: Dina Paola Rodriguez
LEIMAY Administrative Associates: Theresa Magario, Denise Shumei, José Rivera Jr.
SOAK Technical Assistant: Sofiya Romendik
Box Office: Joanna Stone, Naima Ramos, Charlotte Colmant
SOAK is supported, in part, by The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. SOAK and LEIMAY Ludus Training are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Additional funding for LEIMAY’s presenting program is given by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
Abundant gratefulness to Niki Singleton, Elisa Soliven, Stephanie Tack, Lucy Kerr, Li Cata, David LaGaccia, Lorene Bouboushian, Kaia Gilje, Paige Fredlund, Anya Liftig, Lindsey Drury, Esther Neff, Brian McCorkle, Miriam Parker, Sean Ali, Morgan Roddick, Neta Pulvermacher, Pele Bauch, Georgia Wall, Millie Kapp, Judy Yiu, Ximena Garnica, Shige Moriya, Chris, Helen, and Will Little, and finally my creative and brilliant dancers and performers who have enthusiastically contrib- uted to the content and quality in this work.