ALL THE WAY AROUND
By
MEG STUART + Doug Weiss
With
Mariana Carvalho
AUG 9 | 7:30 PM
On the Boards |100 W Roy Street, Seattle WA
Presented through the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation
*Individual tickets go on sale about 6 weeks before performances.
International superstar Meg Stuart makes her long awaited return to Seattle with this tour de force evening of music, dance, and the thrilling logic of improvisation.
All the way around | meg Stuart + Doug Weiss
In an intimate concert setting, choreographer and dancer Meg Stuart meets jazz bassist Doug Weiss and pianist Mariana Carvalho. Together, they go on an uncharted journey into movement and sound. The light design by Emese Csornai becomes a fourth player, adapting to unpredictable elements in each new venue. All the Way Around starts with the ballad, a song of longing and defiance, and breaks it down into small but meaningful gestures. Tracing and unfurling spirals of memory, All the Way Around takes a deep dive into what was, riding the waves between the almost-remembered and the unknown.
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ARTIST BIOS
MEG STUART
Mariana Carvalho
DOUG WEISS
Emese Csornai
PERFORMANCE AT SFD+I
The Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation is a vibrant month-long immersion in the Seattle dance community, and a chance to explore with dance practitioners experimenting at the leading edge of dance technique, creative practices, and dance improvisation. Grounded in SFD+I’s nearly 30 years of community-building and intergenerational collaboration, this festival is a gateway for new dancers to connect with artists making work in the Seattle dance and improvisation community, and a chance for Seattle-based artists to train and research with internationally renowned artists.
During our Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation, Velocity also presents work by local and visiting faculty members. These presentations range from work-in-process sharings to larger scale productions, and are often one-night-only presentations. We also commission artists to work with participants to create new work that is shared during the festival.
PROGRAM SUPPORT
The Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation is made possible with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and the King County Festival and Events Fund. It is also supported by our community of individual donors, community partners, and arts advocates.
ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION
ON THE BOARDS | Building Access Our front entrance is located up a concrete hill, and has 11 steps to the main entrance.Our ADA entrance is located on the Roy Street side of the building; please ring the doorbell by the mailbox for entry.We currently have one wheelchair available upon request.
Accessible Seating Mobility device accessible seating is available for both our Merrill Theater and Studio Theater shows. Our front row of chairs are armless, mobile, and can be configured to accommodate a wide variety of options. Seating in the back of the theater is available with notice ahead of the performance.
Bathrooms Our lobby floor has two (2) gender neutral, multi-stall bathrooms. Both are accessible for those using mobility devices. Our Studio Theater floor has two (2) gender neutral; single stall bathrooms; one is accessible for those using mobility devices.
COVID-19 Safety Policies Our health protocols continue to be informed by King County guidelines. On the Boards does not require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test to attend the theater. Audience members are encouraged to wear a mask, but masks are not required. We ask that all audience members respect each other’s choices.If you have tested positive for COVID-19 or have symptoms of COVID-19 — stay home, even if you are fully vaccinated.
Meg Stuart (US/BE/DE) is a choreographer, director and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. With her company, Damaged Goods, founded in 1994, she has created over thirty productions, ranging from solos and duets such as BLESSED (2007) and Hunter (2014) to large-scale choreographies such as VIOLET (2011) and CASCADE (2021), video works, site-specific creations like Projecting [Space[ (2017-2019), and improvisation projects such as City Lights (2016). Stuart’s work moves freely between the genres of dance, theater and visual arts, driven by an ongoing dialogue with artists from different disciplines. Through fictions and shifting narrative layers, she explores dance as a source of healing and a way to transform the social fabric. Improvisation is an important part of Stuart’s practice, as a strategy to move from physical and emotional states or the memory of them. She passes down her knowledge through regular workshops and master classes in- and outside of the studio. Meg Stuart received several awards in recognition of her oeuvre, among which the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale di Venezia in 2018. www.damagedgoods.be
© Photo Oddbjørn Erland Aarstad
Anya Cloud (she/they) | I am an experimental contemporary dance artist originally from Alaska and currently based between Colorado and Berlin. As a queer white person, I orient my work to cultivate radical aliveness as an artist-activist practice. Collaboration, questioning, and deep physicality are central to all of my work. Makisig Akin and I co-direct the project-based dance company The Love Makers Company. Our work has recently been produced by DOCK 11, Tanzfabrik Berlin Bühne, Tanztage Berlin, Movement Research at the Judson, OUTsider Fest, Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation, and What You See Festival. Important collaborators include Makisig Akin, Sara Shelton Mann, Karen Schaffman, Eric Geiger, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Rebecca Salzer, and Nhu Nguyen. I have taught at festivals and institutions internationally including at Guatemala Contact Improvisation Festival, Tanzfabrik Berlin Schule, ImPulsTanz, Tanzquartier, wcciJAM, Ukraine Contact Improvisation Festival, The Field Center, BeingTouch, and Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation among others. I currently teach at the University of Colorado Boulder, earned an MFA from UCSD, and trained in the Feldenkrais Method® under Elizabeth Beringer.
*Photo © Oddbjørn Erland Aarstad
Mariana Carvalho (BR/DE) is a performer, sound artist, improviser and musician, working with body, voices, listening, relation, inner sounds and prepared piano. She is part of Sonora – músicas e feminismos and GEXLAT. She is currently doing her masters at Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, UdK Berlin and is a tutor at the Soundscape Project at TU Berlin. She has a piano bachelor ‘s degree at the University of São Paulo, where she was part of NuSom – Research Center on Sonology of USP and Orquestra Errante.
Emese Csornai (HU) studied architecture at the Technical University of Budapest (2002-2004) and fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (BA 2009). Her research in fine arts led her to lighting design, which two principles keep informing each other in her work as a practicing lighting designer, occasionally engaging in installative and fine arts projects and set design. Her main research interest is colors and the physiology of their perception. Her study in instant composition has driven her to research dynamic use of spaces. www.emesecsornai.com