RDT Presents H2O

H2O September 30 – October 2, 2010 Jeanné Wagner Theatre 7:30 pm

September 30 Community Night all tickets $15
Oct 1-2 Tickets $30 ($15 seniors/students)
Tickets available through ArtTix 801-355-Arts or www.artTix.org

Pre performance event by Brolly Arts 5:30-7:30pm in the lobby and surrounding areas of the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center | Free to the public

Studio D after party at Flemings after the October 2 performance of H20. For Studio D tickets use the promo code "StudioD" at the ArtTix Box office.

H2O is a sensuous journey inspired by the rhythm of the tides and the precarious ribbon of life in the desert. Whether in lakes, rivers, oceans or swimming pools, water is the earth’s most precious and vital resource. RDT and Brolly Arts join forces to honor the beauty, the power and the sacred nature of life’s most important element. Whether it rages or seeps, evaporates or gathers, water is the source of inspiration for the choreography, exhibits and performance art. Two atoms of hydrogen joined to one of oxygen, nothing could be simpler or more important to our existence. How we use or reuse water will define the future of our planet.

The performance features Zvi Gotheiner’s GLACIER, a contemporary water ritual that imagines a future civilization coping with shrinking resources. WATERMARK by RDT alumnus, Ford Evans, with original score by composer Ricklen Nobis examines the mysteries and the movement of water, the most conspicuous, the most powerful and the most essential element sustaining life in the desert.

WATER STUDY created in 1928 by Doris Humphrey, one of the founders of modern dance, who experimented with natural rhythms, motor, pulse and breath building rhythmic phrases from the natural ebb and balance of the tides. The piece will be performed by members of Children’s Dance Theatre.

Lastly don’t miss the return of Francie Lloyd’s THE LADY OF THE LAKE, the magical and mysterious supernatural Celtic goddess of water who will leave you breathless.

The Festival

Pre Performance H2O festival 5:30-7:30 pm Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center

Brolly Arts “H2O”

Brolly Arts is dedicated to creating meaningful art and vibrant communities through artistic and civic experimentation and collaboration.

As water issues assume increasingly critical importance, both locally and globally, in collaboration with Salt Lake’s Repertory Dance Theatre, Brolly Arts presents the Second Annual"H2O". In line with Brolly Arts’ objectives of developing community and addressing community interests and issues through the arts, they are creating a weekend of multi-disciplinary arts projects related to water issues. For “H2O” Brolly Arts is working to draw attention to serious water issues, such as wise water use, water conservation, clean water, as well as using water as an inspiration for the creation of new visual and performance art. RDT and Brolly Arts believe that the arts can engage a broader public in thinking about important issues of the day. “H2O” highlights and celebrates this precious natural resource through music, dance, poetry, art exhibitions and installations, film, and music. Brolly Arts 2009 H2O project inspired funding from the NEA - Access to Artistic Excellence for the 2010 H2O project.

Amy McDonald and Margaret Willis have curated a festival that includes choreographers, painters, sculptors, film-makers, poets, and performance artists who have been invited to exhibit their work during a pre-concert installation related to WATER.

Artists in the Festival:

Installation: Dress Tents: Wearable Architecture by Robin Lasser + Adrienne Pao

The Dress Tent project consists of wearable architecture and large-scale color photographs that merge the dress tent sculpture with its companion landscape constructing a fashion of place. The structures are designed to be shown in a gallery or museum as interactive installations, but are imbued with a nomadic legacy of being worn and installed in the landscape.

Choreographer, Angela Banchero-Kelleher: RDT alumnus and assistant Professor at Utah Valley University, will preview a new work called Lacuna which features “water bottle” sculptures by Marcus Vincent. Lacuna engages UVU faculty and students to examine a gap that exists in our relationship to the environment in order to expand a community’s sense of sustainable “place”

Choreographer, Sofia Gorder: Dancers Jersey Reo Riemo and Ursula Perry perform “Dripped”that utilizes the sound of dripping water to slowly build toward a climax of rhythmic movement and ambient techno beats. This physical, sexy, and dynamic dance is informed by water and its inherent and elusive connection to our vitality, desperation and consumption.

Choreographer, Mallory Rosenthal: Highlights the mundane uses for water, which we fail to notice and take for granted on a daily basis.

Ellen Bonett: Constructs vessels from recycled water bottles that sends the message that our water supply should be protected.

Midwives Collective: (artist group from Philadelphia) A puzzle piece featuring work based on water… what lives in water and the lack of water.

Spencer Cope: Uses technology to create a dialog about water. A kiosk will be set up online with videos, pix, and info, taken and or compiled, from around the world; Viewers can download information or have a conversation with a University student in Croatia, American in South Korea or a grass farmer in Oregon.

Blaine Black: Creates Seascape and Tropical Fish Sculptures.

Another Language: A DVD based on an original composition where performers utilize bowls of water as instruments. The two DVD set includes a 50 min mockumentary about restaging the 1987 work and a historical DVD featuring nine different performances of Music For Bubble Biters from 1987-1993.

Dave Hall: A poetry performance Water Painting based on the paintings by Joel Long.

Lynne Wimmer-: Dance film “ Before The Spill/Recollecting Florida."

Holly Simonsen and Laura McCoy: Wet Shards: Egg Island, Great Salt Lake

Holly Simonsen and Laura McCoy, Literary Artists: A exhibition in three parts: a poem, a large photograph of the poem in its off-the-page form, and a short film of the poem being installed and then existing as an access point to a greater awareness of both language and place that addresses water both inside the body and out.

Sallie Dean Shatz a video loop traces City Creek from the headwaters through Salt Lake City through film and commentary.

Marcela Torres: A dress designed about the movement of water.

Gary Wiseman: Projections over a tray filled with water

Maggie Nowinski- “Swallowed”: A film examines plastic water bottles that assimilate into the corners of our landscapes as we swallow the methods of the bottled water industry that manufacture and advertise their contents using notions of purity and health.

Michael McGlothlen: Metal octopus

Julie Foster: Textile inspired by the patterns, ripples, and reflections on the surface of the water.

Laurie Bray: Water Photos

Zara Shallbetter: Painting; small installation of a skeleton Venus.

Trent Alvey: Hanging Pendulums over water sculpture.

Ian Leinbach: Street-art underwater paintings.

Keith McKeown: Terminus is a sculptural project to help our community comprehend the Great Salt Lake’s ebb and flow and educates users of the delicate balance of our water systems.

Brent Schneider- Water/Video Installation