PERFORMANCE AND SCREENING ARE POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Crossing Boundaries in Dixon Place’s Hot Festival - curated by Marcia Monroe
A short dance film, Shadow Box, will be presented on a program with interdisciplinary artist Jill Sigman. For more information see this link: https://dixonplace.org/performances/crossing-boundaries-7-29-23/
Shadow Box is a collaboration between video artist Charles Woodman and choreographer /interdisciplinary artist Rachel Thorne Germond. This work was originally conceived as a short film version of a longer live performance work that included video projection as part of its modus operandi for the choreographic structure and development. The title refers to Victorian "shadow boxes" in which light and shadow are dramatically juxtaposed within enclosed glass-front display cases of thematic groupings of objects of personal significance. Using the silhouettes of moving dancers, the interior and exterior are collaged with images and then layered in increasingly complex ways to create a meditation on external and internal spaces and relationships. These silhouettes create ever-changing patterns of movement that break apart and reform, evoking concerns of human will, control, isolation, and even doom.
Shadow Box (2020)
Dancers/Silhouettes: Larissa Asebedo and Kirsten Reynolds
Camera/Video Design/Editor: Charles Woodman
Choreography/Creative Direction/Camera: Rachel Thorne Germond
Music: Fred Frith
Length: 6 minutes 14 seconds
Originally from Rhode Island, and the daughter of two painters, Rachel Thorne Germond is a performer, dancer, teacher, choreographer, and visual artist. Her early training in art was at RISD summer school where her father was a professor. In 1986 she achieved a BFA in Photography and Printmaking at Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Based in New York City from 1986-1998, she studied modern dance on scholarship with Mary Anthony and Anna Sokolow, at the Cunningham Studio, and somatic techniques with Nancy Topf, Susan Klein and Barbara Mahler. Beginning in 1990 she presented her choreography via The Field at notable venues such as St. Mark’s Church Danspace, Dixon Place, and The Joyce Soho, amongst others. In 2000 she achieved an M.F.A. in Dance and Choreography from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and then founded her Chicago-based non-profit company, RTG Dance. Since returning to New York in 2014, she has continued to perform and present multidisciplinary performances that incorporate visual art, dance, video, and photography. Germond currently lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and the Monadnock region of New Hampshire.
Charles Woodman is a San Francisco, CA based electronic artist working in video and expanded media. His recent projects concentrate on the integration of video with live performance, often in collaboration with musicians or dancers. Exhibitions of his work include screenings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Block Museum of Art, Chicago, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Edison, NJ, and the American Dance Festival, Raleigh, NC. Woodman was a founding member of the video performance group viDEO sAVant and a pioneer in the development of Live Cinema - real time video editing as live performance. Recent appearances by that ensemble include ENSAD, Paris, Spazio Contemporanea in Brescia, Italy, ISEA, Dubai, UAE, and the Berkeley Art Museum in CA. http://www.videosavant.net/