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All rights reserved. ad proofs.indd 1 Subscribe Today: www.seattleshakespeare.org | 206-733-8222 ©2013 Encore Media Group.7/29/13 Reproduction 11:18 AM without written permission is prohibited. 2 ENCORE STAGES SSC 072513 shows 1_3s.pdf ENCORE ARTS NEWS FROM CITY ARTS MAGAZINE 4000 E Madison St 206.323.6027 AM 080813 pink 1_12.pdf GEMMA WILSON GEMMA VIEW FROM THE TOP Heather Hart’s Rooftop Installation In a time when people are more inclined to honors the idea of classical oracles, prophets Instagram a photo of art than interact with whose legends were handed down through it, artist and Seattle native Heather Hart is the ages. The construction of the installation demanding more. Her new installation The honors the time Hart spent working with her Western Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off the carpenter father, who put a hammer in her Mother, sits in the Olympic Sculpture Park at hand as soon as she could hold it. this very moment, daring you not to engage. The Western Oracle is the third installa- A shingled rooftop, functional enough tion in Hart’s Oracular series: The Northern to seem plucked from a home and plunked Oracle sits in Franconia Sculpture Park on a hillside, sits atop a West-facing slope in Minnesota, The Eastern Oracle at the in the Park, as though swallowed by the Brooklyn Museum. Each piece honors the earth. A small door marks the entrance to a land in which it sits. The Western Oracle still, barn-like space within—anyone over features a window with a spectacular water the age of about six will have to crouch to view surrounded by a wall made up of drum Readers enter—and the roof is low enough to clamber panels, which viewers are invited to play. on easily. “One of my favorite things about the At Seattle Art Museum’s Summer at SAM Northwest is the geography,” Hart says. “I opening event on July 11, people couldn’t wanted [the piece] to focus on the history clamber fast enough. Folks of all ages scaled of location, and that brought me to Joseph the sunny roof, as New Orleans-style jazz Seymour, the native drummer who taught band Tubaluba thumped and stomped their me how to pull the drum wall. I wanted to way up to the peak. tie into Seattle’s native history—and loosely “All my work is participatory,” Hart its musical roots—and frame the Puget explains. “I’m never satisfied until I can Sound.” actually sit and watch people play and have Hart also wants people to bring their a conversation with them. They complete own stories. At the SAM opening, one man the piece for me.” told her the piece took him back to the roof CKFM 081613 showcase 1_6v.pdf Hart graduated from Cornish in 1998 with of his boyhood garage. Another said he a degree in video and painting, but some- couldn’t help but think of the devastation of thing about working with those media fell Hurricane Katrina. “There’s a lot of nostal- flat. “I saw myself searching for something gia,” says Hart. “That always happens when Captivated flexible and diverse, I was thinking about you pick a common form, which I love.” Readers Sophisticated theory, thinking about ways to be active As twilight turned the Puget Sound into Sophisticated Consumers and talk to people and be accessible to liquid gold, Seattle dance icon Donald Byrd people that were not just within a certain climbed onto Hart’s roof, moving slowly demographic.” and methodically to the sounds of Quinton Advertise in In her search for connectivity, Hart took Morris’s ethereal violin. Hart’s rooftop is ca- Photo courtesy of Seattle Opera. Bill Mohn photographer inspiration from continuity within the pable of more than surfacing old memories. Performing for you 206.443.0445 x105 generations. The name of her installation It’s already making new ones. GEMMA WILSON [email protected] EMG07 Audience 1_12.pdf encoreartsprograms.com 3 Captivated ad proofs.indd 1 Readers Sophisticated 8/16/13 3:18 PM Sophisticated Consumers Advertise in Photo courtesy of Seattle Opera. Bill Mohn photographer Performing for you 206.443.0445 x105 [email protected] EMG07 Audience 1_12bw.pdf CONTENTS Middletown A1 A-1 Title Page A-2 Welcome to ACT A-3 Up Next at ACT A-4 Director’s Letter A-5 Program Notes A-8 Who’s Who A-10 ACT Partners A-16 ACT Board & Staff ENCORE ARTS NEWS FROM CITY ARTS MAGAZINE Beautiful Dreamer Alice Gosti dances herself home. BY AMANDA MANITACH WHO Alice Gosti, 28-year-old dancer, choreographer, performer and filmmaker from Perugia, Italy. Gosti moved to Seattle eight years ago to study dance and film at the University of Washington. Her work is inspired by durational performance art by artists like Marina Abramovic , Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney, Gina Pane, Yves Klein and Jan Fabre. STYLE GUIDE “As a kid, most of my clothes were hand-me-downs from my brother and family friends, so I’ve always mixed and matched. I love primary colors. I think of Mondrian a lot. Nail polish helps me not chew my nails. I choose a pair of shoes only if I can run in them. Underwear is the most difficult and important item of clothing.” ARCHITECT OF EXPERIENCE Gosti calls herself a “space transformer,” a title bor- rowed from Yoko Ono. Her performance pieces consider every sensual element of the environment, manipulating temperature, taste, sound, smell and textures to evoke memories and emotions in the audience. “I am interested in eradicating the misconception of dance as an art form for the elite,” Gosti says. “I would like to move beyond the fish-tank feeling in which dancers are seen as beautiful, exotic fish.” RUNS IN THE FAMILY The child of artists (her Italian father was an architect, her American mother a graphic designer), Gosti was always the kid running around at art openings. Eventually her parents began interactive installations and perfor- mances as the artist team SANDFORD&GOSTI. “Dreamers themselves, they taught me early on to follow mine,” Gosti says. HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS Growing up bilingual, Gosti never felt like she quite belonged one place or another. “Whenever I was in Italy, I fantasized about living in the States,” she says. “When I finally moved to here, I wanted to go back. Dance and art have been about creating my own language, my own world. I wanted to create a home for myself wherever I went.” LAUREN MAX 4 ENCORE STAGES Kurt Beattie Carlo Scandiuzzi Artistic Director Executive Director ACT – A Contemporary Theatre presents Beginning August 30, 2013 Opening Night September 5, 2013 CAST *Aaron Blakely *Renata Friedman *Sarah Harlett Sarina Hart *Matthew Floyd Miller *Marianne Owen *Eric Riedmann Ray Tagavilla *Alexandra Tavares *R. Hamilton Wright CREATIVE TEAM John Langs Director Jennifer Zeyl Scenic Designer Rose Pederson Costume Designer Ben Zamora Lighting Designer Brendan Patrick Hogan Sound Designer *JR Welden Stage Manager Verhanika Willhelm Production Assistant Evan Christian Anderson Assistant Lighting Designer *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage managers in the United States. Running Time: This performance runs approximately two hours and 10 minutes with intermission. PRODUCTION SPONSOR: SEASONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY: A Contemporary Theatre Foundation Eulalie Bloedel Schneider Artists Fund MIDDLETOWN was produced by the VINEYARD THEATRE, Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director, New York City, Fall 2010 Audience members are cordially reminded to silence all electronic devices. All forms of photography and the use of recording devices are strictly prohibited. Please do not walk on the stage before, during, or after the show. encoreartsprograms.com A-1 WELCOME to ACT Kurt Beattie Some of us may remember the little We seem to float through life innately documentary film by Ray and Charles Eames, confident in its reality, and yet overwhelmed The Powers of Ten, and how it starts at the with how fast it passes us by, and stunned level of a man and a woman having a picnic now and then with how enigmatic and on the lakeshore in Chicago, then speeds unknowable it seems.