About the Show
In 2018, The Creative Independent and National Sawdust will work together to present new works from independent musicians, dancers, and other types of working artists. The series will focus on process, collaboration, and the time and space needed to complete a creative project.
This performance features Unboxing The Compass by Sarah Kinlaw, a collaboratively choreographed work for stage exploring human synchronicity and kinaesthetics. Inspired by mnemonic imaging and memory theater, a series of chapters unfolds before a seated audience, each a therapeutic study in retentive memory, personal trauma, and relationships. Blending her background as a composer and choreographer, Kinlaw’s strategic use of light, sonic texture, and movement are each tools in magnifying how we process memory. She explores sound with a technical curiosity and tangible sensitivity, employing surround sound and microphones to amplify choreography, heightening the audience’s senses and empathic potential.
This work began as a therapeutic exercise in coping with panic. The stage becomes a vessel for control, slowing time in order to elongate and inspect moments of connectivity and estrangement, consciousness and perception. It is made possible by its cast, their emotional embodiment of each movement and theme, and the mutual generosity between narrator and listener. This is Kinlaw’s most personal work to date.
Cast:
Sarah Kinlaw
with
Kathleen Dycaico
Kellian Delice
Quenton Stucky
Tara-Jo Tashna
All compositions and recordings by Kinlaw.
Artists and Presenters
Sarah Kinlaw
Sarah Kinlaw is a composer, choreographer and artist based in New York City. Her eponymous somatic project Kinlaw is the newest vessel for her decade-long interest in the experimentation of memory and human relationships as center-point for authentic performance.
Kinlaw co-runs Bushwick experimental performance space Otion Front Studio, and in 2016 co-directed the large-scale immersive installation and choreography production Authority Figure at Knockdown Center. She has performed at MoMA, MoMA PS1, Pioneer Works, Miami Art Basel, Mana Contemporary, the Villa Medici in Rome, and starred in Tony Oursler’s Imponderable, which closed late April ‘17 at the MoMA. She will be releasing her first solo record later this year.
http://www.sarahkinlaw.com/
Quenton Stuckey
Quenton Stuckey is an only child, dance artist, and vocalist based in New York City.
Tara-Jo Tashna
Tara-Jo Tashna is a Jamaican born performer and choreographer residing in Brooklyn.
Kellian Delice
Kellian Delice is currently based in New York City. They question how to define themselves in writing, often finding their daily practice engaged through musical composition, clothes making and other physical engagements filtered through the mind, amongst everyday life activities. As of this writing, Kellian is curiously devoted to exploring the healing capabilities of polyamory. They are interested in further integrating their means of expression with more specific biological fields of research.
The Creative Independent
The Creative Independent is a growing resource of emotional and practical guidance for creative people. Our goal is to educate, inspire, and grow the community of people who create or dream of creating.
https://thecreativeindependent.com/
