ALICE GOSTI
Bodies of Water
BASH 2020 Screening with Live Commentary
FRI | April 24 | 12PM
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On July 16th, 2016 more than two thousand people witnessed Bodies of water at the Seattle Waterfront Park. Some were there in person. Some watched the streaming from other sides of the world. Some were tourists that encountered something unexpected on their Saturday afternoon at the Seattle piers. Some were there and they knew exactly why. Bodies of water has been described as a Seattle cultural event; a moment in which everybody came together to witness art and experience togetherness in a way that the community will never forget.

None of the collaborators have ever seen the whole video. Their experience has been only from the inside. Performing it.
Velocity Dance Center and MALACARNE are presenting a live stream viewing of the 5 hours of the performance with uncut, unedited commentary from Alice Gosti and all the collaborators for you.
Join us for all of it, parts of it, log in and out as you need and want.
Join us for this experiment of sharing the insides, the scores, memories, and ideas of the piece.

Video by Jazzy Photo

ABOUT BODIES OF WATER:
Bodies of water was originally presented by Friends of Waterfront Seattle, a 5 hour hybrid performance spectacle by Italian-American immigrant choreographer Alice Gosti, in collaboration with composer Benjamin Marx and the performers, produced by Velocity Dance Center.
BODIES OF WATER is architected as a celebration of the city of Seattle, while reminding us of the complex relationship the city has with its waters. This timely new work is inspired by its location – the Seattle Waterfront – and compelled by ideas of water as a natural element, spiritual/cyclical entity, transitional space, and port. Bodies of water is a political performance touching on the ideas of immigration and refugee crisis, Native American fishing rights in the northwest, and water ecology.
A five-hour song cycle, composed and performed by Benjamin Marx (tov), includes live percussions, amplification of water and park sounds, a choir – the Beaconettes, and the chaotic noise marching corps.
Costume Design by Rachel Ravitch. Lighting Design by Amiya Brown (Spaghetti CO., Amy O’Neal, Zoe|Juniper). And a group of 8 Seattle super star dancers – Alyza DelPan-Monley, Lorraine Lau, Kaitlin McCarthy, Amy Ross, Erin Johnson, Sabina Smith-Moreland, Hallie Scott and Ariana Bird.

ABOUT ALICE GOSTI & MALACARNE
Alice Gosti (she/her) is an Italian-American immigrant choreographer, hybrid performance artist, curator, DJ, and architect of experiences. She is based out of occupied Duwamish and Coast Salish land, now named Seattle. Alice works simultaneously with film, installation, wearable art, sound, poetry, digital platforms, and audience interaction to create durational performances integral to their non-traditional sites, to create cultural moments for audiences from one to 15,000.
Gosti’s work has been recognized with numerous awards and residencies. Gosti’s work has been commissioned and presented nationally and Internationally in universities, theaters, museums and galleries. Alice loves planes. http://gostia.com

During Mussolini’s fascist regime, the term malacarne was a derogative assigned mostly to women who did not conform to the fascist ideal of the “exemplary” wife and mother. The conduct, exuberance, or emotions of these women threatened the ideologies upon which fascist power resides. This also included women whose physical bodies were determined inadequate to uphold fascist assertions of Italian biological superiority. These malacarne were institutionalized by the state and often placed in solitary confinement. We are MALACARNE. Never forget. MALACARNE is Alice Gosti’s new performance company, focused on creating social-political performance spectacles. We are interested in the way that history, politics and architecture enter the body and condition the way we move, relate and exist.

Photo Credit: Tori Duhaime