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READINGS & TALKSCadence: Video Poetry Festival 2019
Video poetry has been around since the late 1970s, but it's been enjoying a slight revival in a world where three-minute videos on the internet serve as our primary mode of media consumption. Local fiction writer Chelsea Werner-Jatzke is curating the second iteration of this festival, which will include video poems from Shaun Kardinal, Catherine Bresner, and Sierra Nelson. Bresner and professor-poet Amaranth Borsuk will lead workshops throughout the month for those who want to learn to create their own cinepoems. RICH SMITH
Northwest Film Forum
PERFORMANCE
Dry Land
Two female high school Floridians try to find a solution to one girl's unexpected pregnancy in this topical play by Ruby Rae Spiegel. Anita Montgomery will direct.
Seattle Public Theatre
FRIDAY, APRIL 5
SATURDAY, APRIL 6
SUNDAY, APRIL 7
READINGS & TALKS
Michelle Ellsworth: Artist Talk
Michelle Ellsworthâa Professor of Dance at the University of Colorado Boulder who has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Doris Duke Impact Award, among other accoladesâwill give a talk on her site-specific installation/performance Post-Verbal Social Network.
On the Boards
PERFORMANCE
Michelle Ellsworth: Post-Verbal Social Network
Language is a problem, especially if you're trying to communicate emotional information to someone else. Words aren't enough, and yet they mean too much. And some words even mean the opposite of what they meanâI'm looking at you, "weathered," "cleave," "literally," and all other contronyms. Wouldn't it be nice to just dispense with all this word nonsense all together? Michelle Ellsworth seems to think so. In this installation/performance piece, she's constructed "21 prototypes (aka possible solutions to language)" and placed them throughout On the Boards, including in the bathrooms and stairwells. "The work is particularly site responsive to the plumbing at OTB," press materials read, somewhat cryptically. (Urinal art?) She's also doing a live demonstration of another prototype in the studio space. She's setting all this up to create "non-language-based, non-mediated, human-to-human encounters" in the theater.RICH SMITH
On the Boards
THURSDAY, APRIL 4 (7 p.m.)
FRIDAY, APRIL 5 (2 p.m.)
FRIDAY, APRIL 5 (7 p.m.)
SATURDAY, APRIL 6 (2 p.m.)
SATURDAY, APRIL 6 (7 p.m.)
PERFORMANCE
Moisture Festival 2019 - Late Night Varietè
Moisture Festival is devoted to the variety of performers Seattle has fostered over the years, from circus acts to comedians, burlesque dancers to musicians, and jugglers to tap dancers. VariĂŠtĂŠÂ is the main, recurring event, with a rotating lineup, and there are also matinĂŠe and rather racier late-night versions. The bawdy Libertease Cabaret is for adults only and features burlesque dancers and scantily clothed aerial performers. There are also workshops, talks, and special opening and closing nights. New guest artists this year include French clowning duo Viktor Levillon and Alexis De Bouvere, comedian Mike Wood, and juggler Anne KuĚpper. If you love circus acrobatics, clowning, comedy, and/or sexy dance, you owe it to yourself to go.
Various locations
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FRIDAY, APRIL 5SATURDAY, APRIL 6
