coastalshifts, Part 2 - Multimedia dance performance, 3.5.08

Choreography: Shannon Elliott and the dancers
Dancers: Shannon Elliott, Laura Bolender, Andrea de Keijzer
Video: Shannon Elliott, including photography by Ken Kordich
Costumes: Shannon Elliott
Music: Excerpts from Trois valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté 1. Sa taille and 2. Son binocle, by Erik Satie, Performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet; Excerpt from Free Jazz by the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet; Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) by Brian Eno; [Untitled] by
Nuno Canavarro; Scraph by Isan; Recuerdos De La Alhambra by Otello Casanoches
Lighting Design: Arun Srinivasan

Notes: This multimedia work explores the movements of coastal phenomena - water, sand and plant-life - as I observed them on the shorelines of Oregon and California. My choreographic study was based on the holistic, qualitative methodology of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), known as Goethean Science. Using this approach, I sought a deeper understanding of water, sand and plants through careful observation and reflection, in which I conjured essences, or seminal
gestures, from the phenomena to be embodied and revealed through choreography. My wish is to inspire others to seek a greater connection to the Earth by heightening awareness of the endlessly fascinating phenomena existing in our world and in us.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• performing
• arts
• dance
• nature
• water
• sand
• plants
• Goethean
• science