Manifold Motion Presents Fissure
Where: Tashiro Kaplan Lofts: Vandenbrink Community Room, 115 Prefontaine Place South, Seattle, WA
When: Friday and Saturday March 17th & 18th at 8pm
Tickets: $12 suggested donation at the door
Seating is limited, reservations can be made through Brown Paper Tickets or 1-800-838-3006
Fissure features improvised contemporary music and dance, a sculptural installation and video art that uses the sculpture and performers as unconventional projection surfaces, resulting in a stage swathed in textured and multidimensional moving images.
Through Fissure, Manifold Motion and collaborating artists present improvisation and thematic development across genres and forms as a unified and compelling performance event.
Fissure is co-created by Jeremy Bieger, a composer, bassist and video artist and Manifold Motion's Artistic Director, Keely Isaak Meehan, a movement and video artist. Bieger and Meehan have worked together on several projects over the past ten years including Manifold Motion's premiere production, Seed.
Collaborating artists include Kyle von Wrangel Kinsey, a fused glass artist whose work can be seen and purchased in galleries around Seattle and at Pike Place Market; percussionist and idea-machine Mike McCracken; and musician Dan White.
About the Company
Manifold Motion was founded in the Spring of 2005 in order to produce collaborative and interdisciplinary performances on a regular basis. Based in Seattle, WA, the company works and performs with artists at home and throughout the country. Manifold Motion's premiere production, Seed, was created in collaboration with NY-based composer Jeremy Bieger, and was performed in Seattle in July 2005 at the Freehold Theatre. Seed moved to NY in September, showing at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn. Manifold Motion is a project of the Shunpike.
Focusing on collaborative and interdisciplinary performance, Manifold Motion explores the event at the intersection of art forms by bringing together practitioners of dance, music, theater, literary and visual art and new media. We seek to cross barriers between artforms, encourage collaboration between artists, and provide opportunities for audiences to experience new modes of expression.
About the Shunpike
The Shunpike was founded in 2001 to strengthen the Seattle arts community by partnering with artists to more effectively present and distribute their work. It focuses specifically on emerging artists and arts organizations, helping them negotiate the many administrative, business and production challenges inherent in making art and developing sustainable institutions. Through its Partner Artists program, it has successfully supported the work of over 500 artists working in diverse media including live performance, film, literary arts, theatre, visual arts and arts education.