Dark Leaves Disintegration in Four Parts
Installation and Butoh Performance Series by Katrina Wolfe
Live Music by Micheal Shannon and David Stanford
Saturdays, March 1st, 8th, 15th
7:00 pm
Studio Ma
$15-$30
Saturday, March 22nd
Carkeek Park
6:30pm
Donations appreciated
Please RSVP if you plan to attend. Location details will be sent to RSVPs before the performance.
This four-part performance will feature Butoh-inspired movement amongst a richly layered, intricate installation of suspended branches. It is by far the most complex and expansive installation Katrina has ever created. The first evening of the series will be the only opportunity to see it in its original and very abundant state, because with each progressive week, it will be altered, thinned, and eventually broken down.
The installation will be made from recycled paper, mirrors, and the suspended branches of vine maple, purple smoke, and red-leaf cherry trees. Over the course of four weeks, the installation will be altered during and between each performance, creating a new visual experience as the piece progresses.
Sound artists Michael Shannon and David Stanford will enhance the transformation and eventual deconstruction of the installation by creating a distinctly unique soundscape for each evening of the performance series. Katrina’s movement will be a holistic and open response to her tactile interaction with the environment: from the sounds created by Michael and David to the sounds and textures of the materials themselves and to the energy of the audience.
The site-specific final performance of the series will be in celebration of the Spring Equinox and will incorporate what remains of the installation with the elements of fire, water, wind, and earth.
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Michael Shannon is a sound/recording artist, musician, filmmaker, photographer, and performer of experimental media, based in Seattle. He began performing in the punk clubs of San Francisco in the late 1970's evolving performance and sound designs through various venues and media, specializing in the use of a variety of string instruments from Asia, field recordings, percussion, sound objects, electro-acoustic strings, and electronics. Presently a member of Seattle-based performing/recording groups Gyre, Eye Music, Aono Jikken Ensemble, Animist Orchestra, Broken Mask (Seattle-San Francisco). https://vimeo.com/user7291944
David Stanford is a musician and sound artist living and working in Seattle. He currently plays with graphic score group Eye Music, silent movie soundtrack creators Aono Jikken Ensemble, feedback-based electronics trio Gyre, and for the past several years has been focused on staging sound events at outdoor locations such as beaches and forests in collaboration with Michael Shannon and Joan Laage.