Radius is an improvisational performance that uses dance and music to reveal the dichotomies of intimacy and power. Realized as a site-specific performance, Radius is influenced by the outdoor urban oasis of McEvoy Arts and the natural surroundings of the Djerassi Artistic Residency Program in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
The work is performed by a group of experimental dancers and electronic musicians that aim to create a temporary zone governed by collaboration and fluidity rather than hierarchy and structure. Performers are both responsive and generative, with inspiration and influence moving in both directions. The composition is collectively devised, continuously revealing emergent poetics within the stream of images, movements, and sonics. Responding to both harmony and dischord, Radius is a rehearsal of being with—with other people, with the land, with whatever comes next.
Radius arises from research instigated by CounterPulse executive and artistic director Julie Phelps and Marc Kate on the relationship of dance and music to how power and intimacy are brokered in varying forms of social (dis)orders, from the club to the neo-fascist nation-state. The radius of this research grows as it’s moved from stage to site—further exploring the intersection of context and content.
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Radius is an improvisational performance that uses dance and music to reveal the dichotomies of intimacy and power. Realized as a site-specific performance, Radius is influenced by the outdoor urban oasis of McEvoy Arts and the natural surroundings of the Djerassi Artistic Residency Program in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
The work is performed by a group of experimental dancers and electronic musicians that aim to create a temporary zone governed by collaboration and fluidity rather than hierarchy and structure. Performers are both responsive and generative, with inspiration and influence moving in both directions. The composition is collectively devised, continuously revealing emergent poetics within the stream of images, movements, and sonics. Responding to both harmony and dischord, Radius is a rehearsal of being with—with other people, with the land, with whatever comes next.
Radius arises from research instigated by CounterPulse executive and artistic director Julie Phelps and Marc Kate on the relationship of dance and music to how power and intimacy are brokered in varying forms of social (dis)orders, from the club to the neo-fascist nation-state. The radius of this research grows as it’s moved from stage to site—further exploring the intersection of context and content.