\u201cEscapement\u201d is the title of the new, evening-length piece by\u00a0University of California, Berkeley dance department alums\u00a0Tatianna Steiner and Teo Lin-Bianco, co-founders\u00a0with Ella Wright\u00a0of\u00a0Tether\u00a0Dance Project.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cComing from a university with a lot of structure, when we entered the real world\u00a0there\u2019s\u00a0a lot of unraveling of that structure. We wanted to explore our\u00a0personal experiences\u00a0with that in more of a narrative setting and how a brief passing moment between two individuals can influence one another without even knowing,\u201d says Steiner.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The\u00a0trio and nine\u00a0more\u00a0emerging dance artists\u00a0present the\u00a0world premiere\u00a0of \u201cEscapement\u201d on\u00a0July 10-12\u00a0in\u00a0San Francisco\u2019s Joe Goode Annex.\u00a0It follows\u00a0\u201cFlux & Form,\u201d\u00a0TDP\u2019s\u00a02025\u00a0inaugural\u00a0production, which\u00a0included dances\u00a0by various choreographers in one presentation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe learned a lot about the logistics of putting on\u00a0a production\u00a0and also where to put our energy and time,\u201d Steiner says. \u201cIt is also a different challenge because this is our first evening-length work and with that, we have rehearsals with our dancers rather than coordinating with pieces that are being created independently.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEscapement\u201d\u00a0features\u00a0dancers\u00a0Ash Abe, Ava Shannon, Corinne Dummel, Elizabeth Wiehe, Emma Lowe, Bella Soo-Hoo,\u00a0monique\u00a0jonath, Tai Lum and Talia Sheinkopf\u00a0joining\u00a0Steiner,\u00a0Wright\u00a0and Lin-Bianco. All\u00a0enjoyed working collaboratively.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026. We will oftentimes use improvisation\u00a0\u2026\u00a0to help generate choreography, and we do that in tandem with our dancers,\u201d Lin-Bianco\u00a0says. \u201cThe first few rehearsals we are doing a lot of improvisational scores and figuring out what type of styles could fit actual bodies. A lot of those\u00a0particular moves\u00a0or general ideas that our dancers create end up onstage, and we are the facilitators,\u00a0directors\u00a0or arrangers of those bodies. It feels like a very communal, community-oriented process in which everyone has an artistic voice.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because the\u00a0dancers\u00a0come from\u00a0different backgrounds\u00a0\u2014 modern,\u00a0contemporary,\u00a0jazz\u00a0or commercial styles \u2014 \u201cEscapement\u201d\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0neatly fit into any\u00a0category.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are influences from all across the board, but I would say that if we were marketing this as a single style it would be considered modern,\u201d Lin-Bianco says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The\u00a0dance\u2019s two acts tell the same story, but from soloists with different perspectives.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the audience is going to have a great insight into a story because they are able to see it from two different sides,\u201d Lin-Bianco says.\u00a0\u201c\u2026 Playing around with that overarching structure is something that interested us, and the actual way that we engage with that just came together as the piece progressed.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEscapement\u201d is set to\u00a0jazzy tunes by Duke Ellington\u00a0as well as\u00a0house and techno beats by DJ Rum and Rival Consoles, sometimes repeating.\u00a0Lin-Bianco says. \u201cThat helps create some sort of audio continuity that allows audiences to recall what scenes happened in Act 1 and see how those have changed from the second perspective of Act 2.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Costumes from the\u00a0performers\u2019\u00a0personal wardrobes also help tell the piece\u2019s story.\u00a0Lin-Bianco says. \u201cFor scenes in which the person is feeling more enamored by the life they\u2019ve chosen, they have opted for more colorful, brighter garments, and when they\u2019re feeling a little bit more disillusioned about the world around them, they\u2019ve gone for more muted and pastel tones.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Describing\u00a0the set of\u00a0\u201cEscapement,\u201d\u00a0Steiner says,\u00a0\u201cWe wanted to create\u00a0a world around structure and unraveling, and\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0interpreted that as tech and technology.\u00a0So\u00a0structure appears through props,\u00a0\u2026\u00a0chairs\u00a0and keyboards, which remain onstage the entire time and\u00a0kind of inform\u00a0and set little scenes within the show. They are molding the world as we move through the narrative.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
With \u201cEscapement,\u201d the\u00a0choreographers\u00a0are exploring\u00a0how small interactions can lead\u00a0to\u00a0big changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEspecially in a city like San Francisco, there\u2019s a lot of briefness in how we spend time with each other, and I think particularly through art, you can create actually quite a lot of impact in very little time,\u201d Lin-Bianco says. \u201cMy hope is that audiences come away with not necessarily an answer to the question of how we can influence each other\u2019s lives, but more questions about how we can meaningfully make that impact.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Steiner adds that the three curators hope audiences will see themselves in \u201cEscapement.\u201d She says,\u00a0\u201cThis work is built off our personal experience with the city.\u00a0I hope they can relate to that and feel seen throughout work.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tether Dance Project presents \u201cEscapement\u201d at 7 p.m. July 10-11 and 3 p.m. July 12 at the Joe Goode Annex, 401 Alabama St., San Francisco, Tickets are $25-$50 at\u00a0tether.eventbrite.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The post Tether Dance Project premieres\u00a0full-length\u00a0\u2018Escapement\u2019\u00a0in SF<\/a> appeared first on Local News Matters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEscapement\u201d is the title of the new, evening-length piece by\u00a0University of California, Berkeley dance department alums\u00a0Tatianna Steiner and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-389558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}