The Rachel Thorne Germond Performance Collage Ti Perform Program of Multimedia Works

The Rachel Thorne Germond Performance Collage will perform a program of multimedia works, including two premieres, created by Germond between 2017 and 2019 incorporating video projection, performance, and photography. Intrigued by a wide range of random and disparate inputs from modern life, choreographer Germond employs multiple strategies of investigation, in which ambiguous juxtapositions and new unfamiliar languages come to life. February 14-16, 8 PM, at University Settlement House, 184 Eldridge Street. All tickets are priced at a very affordable $15.

Tripod (2017) offers a world on stage not dissimilar to everyday life that addresses aspects of fantasy, imagination, and memory. Metal tripods, placed throughout the stage, are used both functionally and decoratively - worn on the body or danced with as a partner. Projected images of nature, houses, furniture, rings, and other talismans from daily life present a visual journey through an apparent rite of passage. Chicago-based artist Pate Conaway has created both the set elements and fanciful costumes. The sound score ranges from nature sounds to English Renaissance composer John Dowland, to the haunting, funereal church bells in John Luther Adams' And Bells Remembered.

Safety Dance (2018), originally performed as a duet, has been expanded to a quartet to serve up double the drama. William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies and the films of Alfred Hitchcock inspired Germond, who also created the video projection, drawn from manipulated, cropped film stills. The text and sound collage includes snippets of music by Bernard Herrmann, Charles Ives' Central Park in the Dark, and Peter Brook's 1963 film adaptation of Lord of the Flies.

The Prudent Sky (Premiere) is a new duet for Germond and Bessie-award winning dancer Tasha Taylor, inspired by the paintings of Marc Chagall. Music is by Marco Rosano and Henry Purcell.

Shadow Box (Premiere) is a collaboration of Germond and video artist Charles Woodman exploring ideas of double exposure, silhouette, and layering as applied to live dance performance with video projection. Dancers Larissa Asebedo and Kirsten Reynolds will appear in the new work to The Doors version of Kurt Weill's Alabama

Song (Whiskey Bar), poetry by Jim Morrison, and Love Me Two Times.
Rachel Thorne Germond Performing Collage (RTGPC) presents the multimedia works of Germond that incorporate video projection, performance, and photography. Originally from Rhode Island, Rachel received dual degrees from Cornell U: a B.A. in Comparative Literature and a B.F.A. from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.

From 1998 to 2000, she received a fellowship and M.F.A. in Dance and Choreography from the U of Illinois/Champaign-Urbana, and was active in the Chicago dance community from 2000 to 2010. Now Brooklyn-based, Rachel's work has been presented at St. Mark's Danspace, the 92nd St. Y, Movement Research, and other local venues.

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