Relay: Discovering New Species is an investigation of the alchemy of language, movement, and space/place.
Relay: Discovering New Species is a dance poetry performance working with material that ranges from embodying poetry, transducing conversations into practice-actions in space, and studying energetics with swords. The piece is a composition experimentally-based on materials of the 2013 Summer Encounters; while the piece does not immediately address all of the interactions nor encompass them, the conversations provided multiple layers of communication which became both direct and indirect material for the piece. After a period of extending solo research to its edges, transducing words into practice actions in space, studying energetics with swords, walking and talking with people, and meshing with an urban East Bay valley between three mountains, Margit has been nesting again in the studio context and there has made a dance. Now, felting relations, presencing, and forming vivid dance space in a dance poetry performance piece. What Discovering New Species refers to is the awe of what it means to make something, for it to be named in a sense be it sound or object or action that is entirely novel for that moment, yet drawn from what already is. This delicate place of encountering language and tone is the material of this work.
The piece traveled:
~Studies / Kunst-Stoff Arts (SF)
~The NO THANK YOU SHOW, curated by Abby Crain (SF)
~Char Salon / U.C. Riverside
~Vivid Space Salon / Pieter Performance (LA)
~ SALTA = n/a, with Tessa Wills (Oakland
~Performance Evening with Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang / Taoist Studies Institute ~ Seattle, with a post-show conversation guided by Jarrad Powell and Mary Sheldon Scott (Molly)
~Performance and Potluck Conversation, with Daria Fain and Brenda Ijima / The Loft (Brooklyn, NY); potluck co-facilitated by K.J. Holmes + Marissa Perel, co-presented by Daria Fain / The Prosodic Body
Culminating Events ~ Bay Area:
~Tuning The Possible, Berkeley Art Museum, curated by Asia Wong
~Tuning Group Excursion, part of the ~Home Theater Festival
~Relay Presentation at JFK University, Berkeley
~Relay Performance + Potluck at the Starline, Oakland, with a group of Oakland Tuners and an art of conversation presentation with Justin Desmangles.
~Relay Studio Show, Oakland, performances by Denise Leto and Violet Juno.