STUDY OF TIME AND MOTION: connect/reposition

Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 1pm

  • Doors open at 12:30pm. Allow ample time to find the plant as GPS can send you astray. Wear very warm clothes (lots of layers) and comfortable shoes. This venue is not handicap accessable.
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Directed/Choreographed by Tia Kramer & Tamin Totzke
Collaborators/Performers: Ezra Dickinson, Mary Margaret Moore, Rachael Lincoln, Kt Shores, Aaron Swartzman, Tamin Totzke and Tia Kramer.
Environmental Designer: Grant Bowen.
Steam Plant Historian/Guide: Elissa Favero.

STUDY OF TIME AND MOTION is a collaborative performance project that explores human connection within the modern push toward efficiency.

Set at the historic Georgetown Steam Plant, connect/reposition is the second part of a site specific performance series that reactivates motion studies expert Frank Gilbreth’s 18 elemental gestures of efficiency and inefficiency. Inspired by these iconic gestures, performers grasp, position, and reposition objects and themselves with measured cadence. When choreographed repetition frays, efficiency becomes the fulcrum through which performers maintain emotional and physical proximity to one another. The audience is both guided and given freedom to navigate and uncover movement artists embedded within the plant. Incorporating performance, projections at the plant and public signposts along the environs of the Duwamish River, this multidisciplinary project invites viewers to think through how the body moves us forward.

connect/reposition is a choreographed meditation that asks: What impact does our desire for progressive perfection have on human interaction and our relationships with constructed and natural environments?

For more information about the STUDY OF TIME AND MOTION project visit:
www.studytimeandmotion.com

 

Wear very warm clothes (lots of layers) and comfortable shoes.
Allow ample time to find the plant as GPS can send you astray.  Click here for a PDF map.
Doors open at 12:30pm.


Georgetown Steam Plant

6605 13th Ave S
Seattle, WA 98108