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Re: What are you working on in your artistic practice and related activitie
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Apr 27, 2004 6:46 PM
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Currently, I am taking a bit of a breather from performing until June. In February and March, I presented two shows, Episode 5: sociocorpomembraneousrelocation and Colin Rusch's Guide to New Dance.
Episode 5 was the fifth in a series that I have been doing for a year and a half. For lack of a better term I have been calling movement conversations. I invite another artist, in this case Dylan Skybrook, to work with me for three months. At the end of the working period we present what we have found/created. The idea is to have no agenda and let our artistic practices co-mingle. I find these one on one relationships powerful. As artists my collaborators and I become invested in each other and we are both able to expand our practices. Just as important is the larger social aspect of the project. It provides and occasion for our communities to interact. All of the performances have been in and around Studio Smuda at Chicago and Lake Street in Minneapolis. We have been all over the building and the corner. Studio Smuda is my friend Sean's home and photo studio. The performances are really just the start to a social event where the audience discusses the work presented and their own practices among other things.
Colin Rusch' Guide to New Dance was a proper theater show that I presented at the Red Eye in Minneapolis. For me, this show was about the personal significance of dance work. Through the form of dry characters based on my mentors and full on improvised movement and sound, I presented an absurd and sincere take on how small details of my life intersect with the underlying life force of my artistic practice. After one of the shows we hosted and audience panel. Three members of the audience, artists working with sound, movement, visual art, and community endeavors, plus a moderator discussed the show. In all, the project raised the questions of what is the value of this work but how does it participate in mainstream culture and with a broader audience.
Colin
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