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| Cilla Vee with the sculpture of Patrick Pierce - Photo: Mary Ann Kerns |
“While These Visions …. “
WHO:
Two Diamond Art Farm presents Cilla Vee Life Arts
WHAT:
While These Visions … (did appear)
– A Midsummer Night’s Revelry of Art and Dance
WHERE:
Two Diamond Art Farm – 98 Hearn Road, Saco, ME
WHEN:
Summer Solstice – Friday June 21st
– Gather at 7pm for pre-show reception
HOW
MUCH: Sliding scale $5 - $15
This Summer Solstice, Saco’s Two Diamond Art Farm
will become the scene of magical revelry!
“While
These Visions … (did appear)” is a multi-disciplinary
cornucopia of art, dance, music and literature (the title of which will have a
familiar ring to Shakespeareophiles)
Two Diamond is hosting and presenting Cilla Vee
Life Arts – an Asheville NC based arts organization with a mission of
inter-disciplinary collaboration.
CVLA Director Claire Elizabeth Barratt (aka Cilla
Vee) has paired regional New England based choreographers with the sculptures
of Two Diamond’s Patrick Pierce, sprinkle in some live music and spoken word …
and Abracadabra …. Midsummer magic!
Guests will gather in the barn at 7pm for a
pre-show reception, then as the sun is setting they will be guided in a merry
throng across the land to visit one sculpture at a time. At each stop there
will be a dance performance that has been created in response to that
particular sculpture.
Performers include: Jennifer Bourgeault (with
Kurt Brown), director of Saco’s own Collective Motion, Portland based dancer /
choreographers Esme Goldfinger, from the Bates dance program and Joie Grandbois
with Middle Eastern influenced music by Stephen Carpenter and Barbara Truex. As
well as performance by Cilla Vee (with NH based artist Dei Xhrist) and some Shakespearean
oration by Patrick Pierce.
Tickets are on a sliding scale of $5 - $15 and
can be purchased on the door.
And for information on Patrick Pierce and Two
Diamond Art Farm: http://www.patrickpierce.com/
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| Cilla Vee at the Asheville River Sculpture Festival, NC |
While These Visions
– Performing Artists
Additional
Information
Sculpture / piece title
Choreographer / performer
Accompanying performers
Trillium
Cilla Vee
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| photo: Laila Alimiri |
Claire Elizabeth Barratt (aka Cilla
Vee) is an inter-disciplinary artist with a performing arts background. She is
the director of Cilla Vee Life Arts – an arts organization with a focus on cross-media
collaboration. Her work utilizes artistic disciplines of dance, music, text,
media, visual and installation art.
Claire has presented her work in venues
as diverse as Jacob’s Pillow, the New York
Botanical Gardens, Black Mountain
College Museum + Art Center and Art Basel Miami.
She has performed and taught throughout
the USA and in Canada, Europe, Japan and
Pakistan.
Claire received her professional
training in London at The Laban Centre For Movement and Dance and at the London
Studio Centre For Performing Arts. Her pre-professional training includes the
Royal Academy of Dance and the Royal Schools of Music examinations.
She also served an apprenticeship with
the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation in New York and holds an MFA in Creative
Practice from the Transart Institute with Plymouth University, UK.
On moving to the USA in 1992, Claire
held the positions of Dancer for Unto These Hills drama on the Cherokee Indian
Reservation and for Asheville Contemporary Dance Theater in North Carolina, as
well as serving as a Co-Founder and Director for Circle Modern Dance and as Choreographer
for the Knoxville Opera Company in Tennessee.
Once based in New York in 2002, Claire
founded Cilla Vee Life Arts and, with the support of arts advocates such as
Chashama, Bronx Council on the Arts and Arts for Art, began to develop and
present her signature modes of work – including Motion Sculpture Movement Installations
and The Sound Of Movement projects.
She is the creator of the Living Art pedagogy for performance art.
Claire now uses Asheville NC as her
home base and tours frequently to connect and collaborate with a variety of
international artists.
“My work as an artist blurs boundaries and crosses categories.
Re-defining the traditional
concepts of a “piece” and challenging the conventions of
performance, time, space and audience relationships.”
Dei Xhrist
Multiple disciplinary artist using sound,
performance, and sculpture to articulate dream logic, time travel, and the
frustrations of being awoken from a deep, confusing dream.
Birth
of Venus Hermaphrodite
Joie Grandbois:
Creatrix
Dancer, choreographer, musician,
writer…storyteller.
Whether using the medium of dance, rhythm or
words Joie seeks to bring to life the voice present in a creative work.
Her creative work is deeply rooted in embodiment practice with an emphasis on
the body being invited to listen to its own voice and to allow that voice to
speak in movement, music and story. Inspired by the spark that is created
through collaborative improvisation she sees the environment, the stage, the
musicians, and the audience all as co-collaborators in a performance work; each
bringing their own experience to the performance and becoming a part of its
story in that moment.
A lifelong dancer Joie entered the world of belly dance through the side door of raqs gothique (gothic belly dance) after falling in love with its dramatic storytelling nature. She went on to study the more traditional cabaret and Turkish styles of the dance, which only made her fall more deeply in love with the art form.
Joie is a practitioner and teacher of Contemplative Dance & Authentic Movement.
She utilizes techniques from this practice to
teach embodiment to dancers and other movement artists. She works with
students in classes and one on one to help them connect to and express their
creative voice. She has completed the Contemplative Dance Year Long
Program (Year 1) with Daphne Lowell and Alton Wasson.
She is the founder and director of the interdisciplinary variety show performance troupe Dark Follies which formed in 2008. She teaches and performs around New England with Dark Follies and as a solo artist.
She is the founder and director of the interdisciplinary variety show performance troupe Dark Follies which formed in 2008. She teaches and performs around New England with Dark Follies and as a solo artist.
www.joiegrandbois.com
Stephen Carpenter
Stephen has been playing hand
percussion for most of the current century, mostly in the Middle Eastern
tradition. He also plays ney, guitar, and tank drum. He is an
accomplished woodworker who makes many of the instruments he plays.
www.presumpscotwoodworks.com
Barbara Truex
Barbara Truex lives in southern Maine
where she performs, composes, and creates sound designs. She performs regularly
with three groups, works with local theaters, audio drama producers, and hosts
a world music program on community radio. Her instruments of choice are
electric and acoustic mountain dulcimers, banjo and baritone ukuleles, tenor
guitar and hand percussion. Musical meanderings include (but are not limited
to) improvisation, jazz, French traditional, Middle Eastern, Eastern European
and of course American folk music.
https://barbtruexmusic.wordpress.com/
Eclipse
Esme Goldfinger
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| photo: Phyllis Graber Jensen |
Esme Goldfinger’s choreography has, in the past, embraced theatricality and humorous elements to reach audience members of all backgrounds.
Portland-based Maine dance artist, Goldfinger continues
to develop her technical training and creative process at Bates College. She
works in a modern to postmodern style and often develops her choreography
around the strengths of her performers.
Beginning dance at a very young age, Goldfinger
has recently branched her knowledge of dance technique into choreography, lighting
design, and music composition.
Influences include visual art, literature, and
psychological theory.
As a dancer and choreographer, my
work is made to reflect and inform the individual’s relationship with the body.
I believe that the everyday ordinary gestures and body languages used by people
are direct extensions of the self and should be explored with the same
curiosity and fascination as any other aspect of human existence. I focus, in
particular, on the physical and mental strength and beauty that emerges when an
individual is faced with an archetypal struggle for which one often cannot
prepare. My most recent work explored my panic at the thought of mothering a
first child. Other experiences like this include first love, first loss, and other
wholly overwhelming firsts that recklessly throw lives off kilter and infatuate
the mind.
North
Coast
Jennifer
Bourgeault
Jennifer Bourgeault holds a B.A. in Dance from DeSales University
where she studied the classical Modern techniques of Limon, Cunningham, Horton,
and Taylor as well as the Cecchetti method of Ballet under Trinette Singleton.
Additionally, Jennifer has trained with the Paul Taylor dance company and David
Parsons dance. While in Philadelphia, Jennifer was a soloist with the Opera
Company of Philadelphia’s “The Pearl Fishers” and “Aida”. Upon returning to her
native state of Maine in 2006, she established Collective Motion (CM), a
collaborative modern dance company. With CM she has had the opportunity to work
with Maine’s best dancers and choreographers presenting work throughout Maine
and New England. Most notable Maine performances include, “The Magic of
Christmas” with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Maine Island Dance
Festival, and “Been here Before” an evening work by Collective Motion. In 2013
Jennifer founded Collective Motion Arts Center, a non-competitive dance studio
in Saco, ME. She continues to create work, teach and perform around New England
and hope to do so for many years to come!
Kurt Brown
Kurt Brown is a songwriter and musician from
southern Maine. He has been writing, recording, and performing with various
area acts since 1998. He started and runs Second Order Audio, a music
electronics company, based in Saco, Maine.
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| Patrick - hard at work! |
