Kitchen Sink Fest is a mega-collaborative one-minute dance extravaganza featuring Washington, DC’s 22 most daring dancemakers, a whole lot of dodecahedra, ten installation works and live animals. This two-year collaboration culminates in public performances July 30-31, 2016 at Dance Place in DC, and takes the following structure:
25 one-minute performance pieces in the Cafritz theater
35-minute pause during which audiences will tour the entire facility and encounter installation works
25 mo...
Kitchen Sink Fest is a mega-collaborative one-minute dance extravaganza featuring Washington, DC’s 22 most daring dancemakers, a whole lot of dodecahedra, ten installation works and live animals. This two-year collaboration culminates in public performances July 30-31, 2016 at Dance Place in DC, and takes the following structure:
25 one-minute performance pieces in the Cafritz theater
35-minute pause during which audiences will tour the entire facility and encounter installation works
25 more one-minute performance pieces in the Cafritz theater
One-minute dance collaborators will harness the power of the outside eye by pairing up to distill each other’s longer works down to the most essential, interesting, exciting, surprising, awesome, and memorable moments. In contrast the installations will dismantle the traditional theatrical structure and give audiences a necessary respite from the fast-paced frenzy.
Time, space, and theater magic are key themes. The dichotomy between highly timed works for the stage and timeless installations makes audiences consider the generation in which we live, characterized by a constant flow of information. Dances will pop up in pockets of the performance space as defined by site-specific elements of the Cafritz Theater and by movable scenic pieces. While lighting, sound, scenic and multi-media design elements are accepted as critical components to bolster choreographic and theatrical works, Kitchen Sink Fest tips the traditional balance of significance between text, movement and design. Several dances without dancers will take place on stage, focusing on the technical elements and featuring no fully visible performers. Cohesion will be created amongst the 60 works through design, including through the use of over 100 dodecahedron props ranging in size from 1’ to 6’. The performance will be bold, brave, experimental, and awesome.
Who is involved:
Producing Director, Lighting/ Scenic Designer, Choreographer: Ben Levine
Costume Designer, Choreographer: Claire Alrich
One-Minute Dance Stage Manager, Choreographer: Annie Choudhury
Installation Stage Manager, Choreographer: Sarah Chapin
Projection Designer: Adrian Galvin
Assistant producer, Choreographer: Sarah Greenbaum
Sound designer, Composer: Jeff Dorfman
Collaborating choreographers:
Eames Armstrong
Holly Bass
Amanda Blythe
Clancyworks Dance Company
Matthew Cumbie
Dance Box Theater
darlingdance
Mountain Empire Performance Collective
Uprooted Dance
Rebollardance
ReVision Dance Company
Maree ReMalia | merrygogo
Sadie Leigh
Tia Nina
Pointless Theatre Co