Live at the Northwest Film Forum – Starting tonight!

Bridging Wounds
Sep 17 – Sep 19

Thursday, Sep 17 at 08:00PM
Friday, Sep 18 at 08:00PM
Saturday, Sep 19 at 08:00PM

Paris Hurley (Degenerate Art Ensemble, Kultur Shock), Ezra Dickinson (Zoe Scofield, The Maureen Whiting Company), Jamie Iacoli (i&m), Tilla Kuenzli (The Maureen Whiting Company), Amanda Moore (filmmaker), and Paurl Walsh (Degenerate Art Ensemble, X-Ray Press) integrate original music, movement, and animation to explore the connection between words and perception. Explore the world of Post-Its, plastic and string, where shoes are adopted, then abandoned, imaginary kitchens are traversed and industrial and human sounds mix with violin and a cacophony of voices.

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Expanding Cinema Beyond the Screen

Look what Northwest Film Forum is up to later this month:
(The rest of the Northwest Film Forum Live series is pretty fantastic, too!)

Bridging Wounds

Sept 17 – 19

Paris Hurley (Degenerate Art Ensemble, Kultur Shock), Ezra Dickinson (Zoe Scofield, The Maureen Whiting Company), Jamie Iacoli (i&m), Tilla Kuenzli (The Maureen Whiting Company), Amanda Moore (filmmaker), and Paurl Walsh (Degenerate Art Ensemble, X-Ray Press) integrate original music, movement, and animation to explore the connection between words and perception. Explore the world of Post-Its, plastic and string, where shoes are adopted, then abandoned, imaginary kitchens are traversed and industrial and human sounds mix with violin and a cacophony of voices.

SEE LISTEN TASTE FEEL Preview | Orkestar Zirkonium

Listen up! Orkestar Zirkonium will be featured at SEE LISTEN TASTE FEEL. Nothing says ‘party’ like a live marching band. Another reason to purchse your ticket to THE PARTY OF THE YEAR!

From orkestarzirkonium.com

Orkestar Zirkonium is a Balkan-inspired mobile brass-and-drum band cast through an American lens. Our repertoire includes songs on loan from Eastern Europe’s phenomenal brass band tradition, as well as a number of original compositions.

Check out their live performance on KEXP.com

or

Check out an audio interview via Spin the Globe and SoundRoots

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SEE LISTEN TASTE FEEL Preview | Emerald City Soul Club

All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right!

Ross Mantle | The Seattle Times

Since moving to Seattle about eight years ago, I can safely say that THE BEST PLACE TO DANCE in Seattle – hands (and feet) down – is at Emerald City Soul Club – where they invite you to GET DOWN TO THE GET DOWN! I love seeing a dance floor packed with a diverse crowd, mandatory and spontaneous clapping, and an indescribable dose of magic. I have never seen such joy (not to mention sweat) in my life. And Emerald City Soul Club will be serving up some rare soul at SEE LISTEN TASTE FEEL – further cementing this event as THE PARTY OF THE YEAR!

Ross Mantle | The Seattle Times

Emerald City Soul Club is a monthly soul night here in Seattle, WA dedicated exclusively to RARE SOUL from the 60s and Early 70s, Tamla-Motown favorites, with a smattering of 60s RnB, 70s Crossover and Modern on original 45. You will not hear Funk/Ska/Reggae/Freakbeat/Garage/Mod/Hammond Groove, etc. Resident DJs: Gene Balk, Mike Chrietzberg, Brian Everett, George Gell, KennyMac, Alvin Mangosing, Marc Muller, Mike Nipper

Ross Mantle | The Seattle Times

Check out this article from The Seattle Times | By Jonathan Zwickel

“Outside the club, the crowd was unanimous. “It’s the best night in Seattle,” said 27-year-old Matt Bowen. “It’s the place people will let the pretense down. People want real music. They hear this soul stuff and they wanna dance.”

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Velocity Dance + Open Floor | New Dance Cinema

Choreographer: Paige Barnes, Photographer: Laurent Ziegler. Courtesy of Velocity Dance Center.

The next edition of Open Floor will not be the last Tuesday of November (as you might expect), but will rather be on Thursday December 4th, at 7 PM.

The event is a partnership between the Open Floor crew and Velocity Dance Center, centered on their Next Dance Cinema presentation, now in it’s third year as showcase for dance films by Pacific Northwest artists.

This year’s selection of independent dance films was curated by Karn Junkinsmith and the evening promises to enchant and engage audiences of dance and visual art lovers alike. Next Dance Cinema is part of Velocity’s Next Fest NW that includes live dance performances December 12, 13 & 14, at 8pm at Velocity’s MainSpace Theater. For more information about Next Fest NW, and information about how to purchase tickets, Check out their website!

The artists represented in Next Dance Cinema 2008 and their featured work are:

Paige Barnes / lie down on a road (don’t get hurt)
Corrie Befort / 2 Kinds of Wind
Erika Mayfield / The Cyclist
Catherine Cummings / We’re Undermining and Withstanding
Kristina Dillard / For Anna
Jenna Veatch / Clementine
Yuki Enomoto / Running
Carla Barragan / Cocoon
Adam Sekuler / Merely Mouthpiece
Karn Junkinsmith / Strike
Alice Gosti / Airport Project
Megan Mertaugh / The Attic
Ricki Mason / Be Your (most attractive) Self
Nathan Vass and Rachel Randall / Green Triangle Poopy Park

Come for the chance not only to see these amazing films / videos, but for the Open Floor dialogue with these artists.

October Open Floor

Tuesday, October 28 | 7PM

Henry Auditorium | FREE

In this continuing program for the presentation of unconventional works, the Henry Art Gallery and Open Floor present a forum for lectures, debates, and discussions to foster a dialog between artist and audience, art and it’s cultural context.

This month, Open Floor focuses on the image. Topics will range from epistomology (truthiness?) to form, and from images in sequence to music and dance, as presented by:

Image by Michael Barkin

Michael Barkin, photographer and student of the UW Information School, will discuss mass media, distribution channels and audience. The framing images for the topic are 20 images taken by Barkin at the World Trade Organization protests here in Seattle in 1999.

Michael Rioux, visual artist and dancer, will be improvising a performance in collaboration with musician Mikhail Kaschock, based on a series of images and the imagined connections, narratives, and conclusions to be drawn there-from.

Allyce Wood, printmaker, sculpture and student of Cornish College of the Arts, will present a slide show and selected videos from recent travels in the grasslands and mountains of the American west (Colorado).

SUPERAMAS at OTB next week!

Don’t miss the first show in the glorious new season at On The Boards!
Superamas: BIG, 3rd episode (Happy / End) opens next week and I am really looking forward to it.
Don’t have to take my word for it, – check out the New York Times review by Gia Kourlas.

Some details from OTB:
The performance collective Superamas creates borderline raunchy collisions of meticulously crafted performances and popculture. BIG, 3rd episode probes the dystopian views of writers such as Jacques Derrida and Michel Houellebecq through live, film-inspired deconstructions of band rehearsals, locker room chats and house parties. What results is a breezy search for happiness and pleasure that is shiny and sleek on the outside but troubled at its core. Superamas has performed at some of the most prestigious festivals in the world, recently appearing at the Vooruit Art Center (Belgium), Festival d’Avignon (France) and the Under the Radar Festival (NY).

Find out more here.

Sod underpants!

Sorry if I am ruining a surprise there – but that is one small reason to visit On The Boards this weekend to see Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey; the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t.

It is a great, energetic, exhilarating, scary show. Don’t miss it. This is some of the best dance I’ve seen in Seattle. What a team! Juniper’s poetic installations complement Zoe’s freaky, balletic, strange, and sexy moves so perfectly.

Because this, this, this, and this are happening – I feel very lucky to have caught a dress rehearsal last night. Someone called it a feral ballet, which seems appropriate.

Go over to OTB’s site to hear interviews with Juniper and Zoe – and to buy your tickets.

Guess what, kids? If you are under 25 and you’ve got ID to prove it, your ticket is 12 freaking bucks! That is so cheap! No student rush line, either. Just call the box office and tell them you’re under 25 – then show your ID when you pick up your tix.