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Nancy Karp + Dancers "piano piano" Project
Help us fund the creation of piano piano, a unique site-specific work to premiere this performance season.
Nancy Karp + Dancers embarks this fall on one of our most adventurous new projects, piano piano made for the Dresher Ensemble space in West Oakland. The work invites the audience through the building’s hallways, balconies, and central floor space. The dancers’ relationship to the architecture and the many spaces that appear to be “fixed,” will inform how the piece emerges.
"piano piano" is an Italian expression that means: slowly slowly, gradually, gently, carefully, quietly, take your time / don't rush - you'll figure it out. Karp writes: “I absolutely love this concept as a way of making decisions and going about life. It is this counteraction to the fast pace immediate culture of most everything in our contemporary world that will be at the heart of this new work; not only the pace and gradual unfolding of the performance, but part of the process in creating the work’s movement vocabulary, music/sound choices, quality of lighting, & the response/treatment of the Dresher industrial space.”
piano piano collaborators are:
Nancy Karp, Artistic Director and Choreographer.
Jay Cloidt, Composer writing music for two pianos, (yes, an intended musical pun) to be performed live by pianist Marja Mutru.
Jack Carpenter, Production Designer and long-time collaborator with Nancy Karp + Dancers will design the lighting to create distinct effects for each performance zone in the building.
Chris Black, Nick Brentley, Sonsherée Giles, Katie Kruger, Amy Lewis, and Nol Simonse, dancers.
Nancy Karp + Dancers has had a successful history creating site-specific work that draws inspiration and context from the environment in which it is created. Karp has created works for sites to include the BART subway stations, the Oakland Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Galleries and the Gardens, the former Del Monte Cannery in Emeryville, and the hillside terraces of the Kyoto College of Art, Japan.
Nancy Karp has been making work in the San Francisco Bay Area for 40 years. Her work has ranged from evening-length abstract narrative collaborations such as “Memory/Place” “Kalasam”, and “Kristallnacht” for formal theater settings to site-specific work such as: "On Beauty" for the David Brower Center in Berkeley, and “La Processione” for the Yerba Buena Gardens.
Nancy Karp + Dancers embarks this fall on one of our most adventurous new projects, piano piano made for the Dresher Ensemble space in West Oakland. The work invites the audience through the building’s hallways, balconies, and central floor space. The dancers’ relationship to the architecture and the many spaces that appear to be “fixed,” will inform how the piece emerges.
"piano piano" is an Italian expression that means: slowly slowly, gradually, gently, carefully, quietly, take your time / don't rush - you'll figure it out. Karp writes: “I absolutely love this concept as a way of making decisions and going about life. It is this counteraction to the fast pace immediate culture of most everything in our contemporary world that will be at the heart of this new work; not only the pace and gradual unfolding of the performance, but part of the process in creating the work’s movement vocabulary, music/sound choices, quality of lighting, & the response/treatment of the Dresher industrial space.”
piano piano collaborators are:
Nancy Karp, Artistic Director and Choreographer.
Jay Cloidt, Composer writing music for two pianos, (yes, an intended musical pun) to be performed live by pianist Marja Mutru.
Jack Carpenter, Production Designer and long-time collaborator with Nancy Karp + Dancers will design the lighting to create distinct effects for each performance zone in the building.
Chris Black, Nick Brentley, Sonsherée Giles, Katie Kruger, Amy Lewis, and Nol Simonse, dancers.
Nancy Karp + Dancers has had a successful history creating site-specific work that draws inspiration and context from the environment in which it is created. Karp has created works for sites to include the BART subway stations, the Oakland Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Galleries and the Gardens, the former Del Monte Cannery in Emeryville, and the hillside terraces of the Kyoto College of Art, Japan.
Nancy Karp has been making work in the San Francisco Bay Area for 40 years. Her work has ranged from evening-length abstract narrative collaborations such as “Memory/Place” “Kalasam”, and “Kristallnacht” for formal theater settings to site-specific work such as: "On Beauty" for the David Brower Center in Berkeley, and “La Processione” for the Yerba Buena Gardens.
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