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Becoming Human

October 19, 2018 – February 9, 2019 
Roth, 2nd Floor, BCA Center

Artist Reception: Friday, October 19, 6-8 p.m.

Artist Talk and Performance: Pauline Jennings
Thursday, November 29, 2018, 6:30-8 p.m.

Additional Infohttps://www.burlingtoncityarts.org/Exhibition/pauline-jennings%E2%80%99-becoming-human-%C2%A0

Becoming Human is an intermedia exhibition seeking to identify and dissolve barriers between human and wild in the Anthropocene. In the three-channel video and sound installation The Air Connects Us, two dancers can be followed as they navigate Shanghai’s bustling streets, urban forests and massive industrial sites in search of connections to wild. During the exhibit, Jennings will present a live duet, Sea Inside Our Skin, rooted in the Chinese maxim “飲水思源 (drink the water, remember its source). This duet invites the audience to witness how breath and water nourishes, propels and changes us from within.  Project VT: Pauline Jennings’ Becoming Human was directed by Double Vision choreographer and co-Artistic Director Pauline Jennings. Becoming Human is a collaboration with Double Vision’s Calvin Aham and Joshua Lacourse (movement), Sean Clute (music composition), Jessica Gomula (video direction), Allen Hahn (cinematography), Jack B. Du (photography), Milo Hecht (sculpture) and Amy Nielson (costume consulting).

Project Vermont is a new series dedicated to experimentation by providing a setting for contemporary Vermont artists to push their artistic practice while creating new work. Presenting visual, performance, and interdisciplinary exploration from emerging to established artists, Project Vermont supports artists’ exploration of new ideas and challenges, enables innovation, and creates engagement between audience and artist.

“Sea Inside Our Skin” was made possible in part with a research and development residency and support by Vermont Performance Lab with support from the Vermont Community Foundation.

Feverish World: Seeking Nourishment

October 20, 2018 | 10am – 12pm
Downtown Burlington

Additional Infohttps://ecoculturelab.net/feverish-world-symposium/

Pauline Jennings will lead Seeking Nourishment, a community-building, riddle-solving urban wilderness walk with site-specific performances in downtown Burlington as part of A Feverish World Symposium, on Saturday Oct 20. Feverish World is organized by the EcoCultureLab at UVM. Seeking Nourishment will be created and performed by Pauline Jennings in collaboration with Calvin Aham, Joshua Lacourse, Sophie Lizotte, Caroline Bennett, Aaron Gaines, Ellie Broadbent and the students of Performance, Art & Social Justice at Saint Michael’s College.

Pre-registration is required.

Sea Inside Our Skin (Artist Talk & Performance)

November 29, 2018 | 6pm – 8.30pm
Contois Auditorium, City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington

Additional Infohttps://www.burlingtoncityarts.org/Exhibition/pauline-jennings%E2%80%99-becoming-human-%C2%A0

Artist Talk: 6.30pm
Performance: 7.00 pm

“A person who knows / the sea is inside their skin / moves in curves and spirals / Even a straight line / is accomplished / flowing through / the curving bones.” – Geoffrey Dubois Kuffner

 

Sea Inside Our Skin, performed by Pauline Jennings and Joshua Lacourse, simultaneously questions and validates our collective need to form nourishing connections. As part of Jennings’ intermedia exhibit Becoming Human, the duet offers a spontaneous refuge and quiet rebellion against an increasingly disconnected world. The 50-minute ritual is rooted in a world built upon loose canvas flooring. The canvas creates a responsive environment where the physical landscape evolves in direct correlation to each performer’s journey and serves as a powerful reminder that the work undertaken is messy, unpredictable, risky and constantly in progress. The audience, seated on all sides, is invited to witness two bodies as they spiral, reach, retreat and erode in a shared struggle toward partnership and defense of autonomy.

 

During the performance, Sean Clute improvises with electroacoustic music to amplify the dancers’ connection with the physical environment of a November evening in Vermont. By using custom made piezoelectric microphones, Clute explores the vibratory stress of snow, rocks, sticks and dry leaves as they melt, scrape, break and erode. Spatialization of the sounds within Burlington’s reverberant City Hall immerses the dancers and audience alike in a sparse wintery soundscape. Sea Inside Our Skin also features lighting design by Stefan Jacobs and costuming and decor by Amy Nielson.

Choreography by Pauline Jennings, created and performed with Joshua Lacourse
Music Composer and Performer: Sean Clute
Costume and Set Design: Amy Nielson
Lighting Design: Stefan Jacobs

“Sea Inside Our Skin” is made possible in part with a research and development residency and support by Vermont Performance Lab with support from the Vermont Community Foundation.

 

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