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Super Nature with Zeena Parkins City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs October 10-13th, 2013
Full of artifice and animal appetites, Super Nature engages the wild, the domestic, and the civilized aspects of human nature to create a radical ecological melodrama. An intimate installation also called Super Nature functions as part one. It is built for a gallery space and an audience of one. The theater work functions as part two.
In Super Nature directors Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad are joined by Bessie award winning composer Zeena Parkins and visual artist Emmett Ramstad. The core cast includes dancers Justin Jones, Timmy Wagner, Emily Johnson, Anna Shogren, Otto Ramstad, Eneka Bordato, Francesca Mattavelli and special guests. Set and costume design: Emmett Ramstad Light design: Heidi Eckwall Dramaturg: Stefanie Hahnzog Project Manager: Nastalie Bogira
Super Nature is a co-commission of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Performance Space 122, NYC; and PadlWest, San Diego. Super Nature is supported by the MAP Fund, National Performance Network Creation Fund, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, American Dancers Abroad, CEC Arts Link, Impulstanz Festival, Lily Springs, Studio 206,the McKnight Foundation and is underwritten by the American Composers Forum’s Live Music for Dance Minnesota program in partnership with New Music USA, with funds provided by the McKnight Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with the New England Foundation for the Arts through the National Dance Project. Major support for NDP is provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation. Support from the NEA provides funding for choreographers in the early stages of their careers. National touring support is available through the National Dance Project for 2014-2015 and for National Performance Network partners through the National Performance Network.
Additional Super Nature resources Walker channel interviews:
Schedule 2013 City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, October 10-13th American Realness and COIL Festival, Abrons Art Center, NYC, January 14-17th
2012 October 25-27th World premiere at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis studio showing Minnesota Dance Platform studio showing, Tanzmesse, Dusseldorf Super Nature installation and workshop, TanzLaboratorium, Kiev, Ukraine Super Nature installation at the Walker Art Center 2011 more experiments for Super Nature, 9 x 22, Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis experiments for Super Nature as part of In the Crease at the Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis studio showing, Regional Dance Development Inititaive, St Ben's University, St Joseph, MN Residency at Lilysprings Farm, Wisconsin Residency and studio showing, Impulstanz, Vienna
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