Thank you for coming out to experience the work of these incredible dancers. We were so fortunate to spend the last six months seeing their work come to life, learning from one another, and supporting each other through the process of creation. I started this residency this year out of a desire to see more dance created and performed at Chapel Theatre and to support more dance expression and experimentation here in Clackamas County. If you are a dancer or a dance enthusiast and want to talk about how we can continue to grow the art of dance here at Chapel and in Clackamas, I have an open ear.
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Corinn deTorres
Chapel Theatre Director and Residency Coordinator
Crew:
Corinn deTorres: Residency Coordinator
Dug Martell: Lighting designer and technical operator
Selection Panel:
Josh Schoonmaker
Natasha Torres-Garner
Timothy Johnson
Corinn deTorres
Special Thanks:
Ronni Lacroute and the Clackamas County Cultural Coalition for supporting this program
Mike Lindberg for photos/videos
Jess Zoller is a contemporary dance choreographer, performer and teacher. During her residency at Chapel Theater, Jess collaborated with writer, TJ Acena, and sound designer, Rory Stitt. Full explores desires, illusions, appetites, and consumption through the many versions of ourselves over time.
Full
Choreography and Performance: Jess Zoller
Sounds Design: Rory StittAuthor: TJ Acena
Music: Daffodils Mark Ronson, Black Velvet Charles Bradley, Le Feu Skúli Sverrisson, Turpentine Alabaster DePlume, Lover// Over the Moon Alice Phoebe LouVoice recordings: TJ Acena, Steph Brownstein, Jaime Gonzales, M’Liss Stephenson, and Jess Zoller
Thanks to TJ, Rory, Steph, Jaime, and M’Liss for their collaboration with this project. Thank you to the Chapel Theatre for the opportunity to research and present and to Corinn, Claire, and Alana for their feedback. Lastly, thank you to Devin and August; my heart is full.
claire barrera is an interdisciplinary artist exploring how power, discipline, care and transformation manifest in intra- and interpersonal dynamics. Their current project Came Back Different, researched during their residency at Chapel Theater, explores shifts in perception and perspective over time. Tricks, tropes and time manipulation expose the mechanics of recollection and historical construction.
Title: Came Back Different
Choreographer/dancer: claire barrera
Prop design and fabrication: Julia Calabrese
Sound: John Niekrasz
To find out more about claire’s work:
Vimeo.com/clairebarrera
Thanks to John and Julia, as well as to Allie Hankins, Hannah Krafcik, Linda Austin, Maya Muñoz-Tobon and Anna Gray for your support and studio collaboration as I worked on this project. And thanks to Chapel Theater for this generous residency.
Alana Rae is an emerging choreographer who has recently been exploring how movement can interact with set design/visual art. They have spent the last six months reflecting, journaling, and playing in the Chapel Theater Annex to explore an individual’s experience with the wounds that life gives. Their piece “I remember the sky” reflects how we find our ways to persevere, stay intact with all necessary parts of the self, and recover. All necessary to continue upward and outward.
Title: “I remember the sky”
Choreographer: Alana Rae Stubbs (they/she)
Dancers: Annabel Koral (they/them), Susi Mendler (she/her)
Set Design: Johnathan Billington (they/them)
Sound: Beautiful Chorus, Anna von Hausswolff, Abul Mogard, and Alana Rae Stubbs
Special thank you to Maddie for putting too many hours into making sure the fabric doesn’t fray, to Victoria for being a listening ear to all my excitements and anxieties around this, to Johnathan for designing and building a tree and holding incredible patience with me throughout, and to Juno for journeying with me through all of life’s wounds.
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