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Auto Mobile Body Works: 2014 Schedule

June 20th-Somerville, MA 8:30p. Meeting location: Alley between ice rinks at Veterans Memorial Ice Rink on Somerville Ave. For more information about the Dancing in the Streets festival presented by the Somerville Arts Council go here.

July 12th- Easthampton, MA 6:45 Meeting location: Old Town Hall steps, Main St. Part of the Easthampton City Art’s ART WALK event.

Aug 2nd- Detroit, MI Time: 4p and 8:30p. Sidewalk Festival of Performing Arts is an outdoor celebration of site-specific performance and installation art, in the heart of Detroit’s Old Redford/Brightmoor Neighborhoods.

Sept 5th- Pittsfield, MA– Meet at Lichtenstein Center for the Arts at 8p. In partnership with Pittsfield’s Office of Cultural Development for the Arts & Industry Initiative (premiere of new work-in-progress scene, “Magic in the Mechanism”)

October 10-12th– Manhattan, NY- Time: TBA. As part of the Art in Odd Places Festival, an annual festival along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River.

 

Auto Mobile Body Works is a space-specific adventure in action-based art that both imagines and reveals an integration of human and auto bodies. The Creatures of Habitat Physical Poetry Public Performance Project utilize video projection, movement, music, and vehicles in outdoor paved spaces, parking garages, lots, alleys, abandoned industrial atmospheres and car wash bays to bring persistent metaphors to life. Sculptural regalia and intentional visual limitations for all the bodies present transport the viewer into a mythical world of blurred lines between real and imagined. The audience are active participants traveling to 4 separate locations to view the work. Auto Mobile Body Works is like a breathing chapbook of individual physical poems that are bound together by a vocabulary versed in intimate texture, dystopian concept, female fierceness, and cultural investigation.

Original video by Stefanie Weber and Greylock Productions

Choreography by Stefanie Weber and Creatures

Sculptural regalia by Stefanie Weber

Music used by permission of Thomas White/Electric Soft Parade

Performers:

Ione Beauchamp, Diane Firtell, Dawn Meltzer, Shira Wohlberg

and Stefanie Weber

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