Site-Specific Dance #3: "REEL" by Tom Pearson

Site-Specific Dance / Contemporary or Modern Dance:

A site-specific work commissioned for the
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's SiteLines series at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, July, 2005. Choreography by Tom Pearson (Cherokee/Creek); Assistant Director: Tori Sparks. Original Composition, played Live by Louis Mofsie (Hopi/Winnebago), the Heyna Second Sons, and Rob Mastrianni.

Featuring performers: Donna Ahmadi (Cherokee/Chickasaw), Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Tom Pearson, and Mayuna Shimizu.
Filmed by Kathleen Green(http://youtube.com/HellKatonWheelz)

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"Their movement--now angular and thrusting against the air, now sinuously splayed against the ground--looked as if it might belong to an ancient tribal culture with ties to various postmodern nations, and it was thrilling." -- Tobi Tobias, THE VILLAGE VOICE


"swift, explosive movements... people deeply engaged in purpose" -- Dancing with Eva Yaa Asantewaa


"The structure and movement in 'Reel' build upon a similar circular momentum as dancers leap in the air and plummet to the floor in jerky spurts... Ultimately, the ghosts of the rotunda come to life." -- Gia Kourlas, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• site-specific
• Site-specific
• dance
• theater
• art
• museumNative
• American
• Indian
• Dance
• dreamcatcher
• dream catcher
• performance
• LMCC
• SiteLines
• Guastavino
• architecture
• rotunda
• skylight
• lampposts
• columbus
• verrazano
• vespucius
• greta
• garbo
• walrus
• sit
• spins

[SuperBrad321]

Great use of the music/musicians, and love the dreamcatcher at the end. When are you doing this again?

[lettucemagnet]

This is fierce

[muttonbutt]

Some serious visual impact!