Andy Morris Videos : Site-Specific Dance #1: "Vanishing Point" (2008) by Tom Pearson & Zach Morris

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Site-Specific Dance #1: "Vanishing Point" (2008) by Tom Pearson & Zach Morris

Site-Specific Dance / Contemporary or Modern Dance: Vanishing Point was envisioned as both a site-specific dance and simultaneously as a dance for a theatrical space, making use of both the unique architectural features and cultural implications of St. Mark's Church as well as its function as a theater for innovative dance works. As part of the City/Dans series, Danspace Project presented the premiere of Tom Pearson and Zach Morris' Bessie Award winning work. Wickedly funny and suddenly somber, Vanishing Point fuses aggressive, exhaustive movement, meditative nuance, and live music by the whisky-powered, alt-bluegrass ensemble The Dang-it Bobbys, led by composer Kris Bauman (performing with Andy Cotton and Bryn Roberts). Vanishing Point was created in collaboration and performed with: Donna Ahmadi, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Tara O'Con, Jennine Willett. Lighting Design by Carol Mullins and Costume Design by Karen Young. The work was presented in a three night engagement that ran Thursday, June 26th through Saturday, June 28th, 2008. Vanishing Point won two 2008 Bessie Awards, for Music Composition and for Choreography. Vanishing Point engages St. Mark's Church both as a sanctuary and an architectural structure evocative of the columns and porticos of the rural south. Culled from the artists' collective stories, it represents a confluence of slipping memories, improbable tales, and faulty recollections--an exploration of family legacies shrouded in secrets, blurred by liquor ...

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