As a artist (especially a former college dance major), we often find ourselves in forced or chance collaborations. To be completely honest, besides working with Merli in constant Luminarium endeavors, I had never really collaborated with someone I knew on a personal level.
We were accepted to mobius' Tinderbox series for April. Having the Threading Motion Project approaching and not a lot of time, I decided to present the broken-down version of my live trio, done as a solo. I suppose in retrospect this is typical for me, present the introspective exploration on a work that hadn't been created or performed yet. Backwards, as usual!
Anyways, in order to fill out the sensory experience, I approached my lovely jazz-composer/trumpet-playing sister, Jenn Allen, to provide some of her new musical sketches to add more life to the work. With Jenn on trumpet, and Christos Zevos, bassist extraordinaire, we had an awesome thing going!
60 ft- of teal silk, the movement talents of Leslie Armstrong (our newest Luminarium dancer)... the art exploration was visually interesting, but since I am a backwards worker and the world knew nothing of this piece, I felt audiences needed a tiny bit more context. We had sections exploring unravelling, emerging, distributing/scattering, a section based on an ostinato, and another unravel. I was going to write some amateur poetry myself... when Christos casually offered to take a turn at it during one of our two rehearsals. Just under two hours later, at the end of rehearsal, I am certainly glad we had agreed to give it a go.
Even if you are lucky enough to have wonderfully talented people in your life, you can still be rendered speechless by new creations... Please enjoy the following poetry, which accompanied our mobius/Tinderbox performance!
-Kim
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Emerge
rises from water:
fathoms deep, cold
and round
the world held their
breath-
and exhaled.
---
Scatter
sunlight through window
hand-clap, dust constell
-ations
each particle
spread,
even drift
to new homes
---
ostinato
a shopping cart
with a stubborn
wheel squeaks a
stubborn hand
cracks knuckles
with shopping
bags in hand a
car door creaks
a window with
small cracks a
strong hand
squeaks chalk a
hand bag with a
stubborn clasp
shopping cart
sound over time
---
unravel
unslip,
tight wound
and wind
-no sag
sound of
hands brushing
on walls,
oceans of
smooth cloth
sky made
solid, balled
up
and released.
ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT C. ZEVOS
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