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Seattle Theatre Group (STG) & 4Culture Site-Specific
present

Curated by Free Sheep Foundation

Free. Saturday, June 20, 2009 / 6pm - 10pm. (come early)

Featuring installations by
Lead Pencil Studio
Susan Robb
Iole Alessandrini
Susie Lee
Beliz Brother
Gretchen Bennett
Megan Mertaugh
Laura Curry + Lori Dillon
Jason Puccinelli
Keeara Rhoades
Wen Marcoux
Robb Kunz
Jesse Higman
Stefan Gruber
Joshua Lindenmayer
Weirdo
Ego
Heumr
Baldman
NKO
No Touching Ground

Performances by
Orkestar Zirkonium with Harlequin Hipsters
"Awesome"
Seattle School
Hidmo Entertainment
Jason Webley
Byron Au Yong
Kaleb Hagan-Kerr
Butoh - Joan Laage, Sheri Brown, Douglas Ridings, Kaoru Okumura
Dub Marronics (from Kyoto)
Ezra Dickinson
Karn Junkinsmith with Paul Hawxhurst, Rachel Kessler, Lucia Neare
Scratchmaster Joe
OrangeMan.

Moore Inside Out will present new, site specific and experimental works from some of Seattle's most innovative artists throughout the venue including non-public places.

The Moore, Seattle's oldest operating theatre, will be turned "inside out" as the public explores over 50 performance, visual, and musical artists performing an artistic intervention throughout the facility - backstage, through the halls, and up the balconies; artists will be exploring the layers of meaning and possibility of this historic place.

Built in 1907, The Moore Theatre has housed vaudeville acts, revivals, political meetings and musicians ranging from opera singers to Soundgarden, boxing matches to dance and theatre. For one night only, these performing histories will emerge simultaneously, interwoven as a mysterious and menacing, fanciful and fantastic topography of the theatre.

Moore Inside Out is programmed to acknowledge the Moore Theatre's role in the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific (AYP) Exposition of 1909, and celebrates its continued role as a hub for creativity and innovation. This event is one of many in the region celebrating and recognizing the AYP centennial this summer.

Moore Inside Out is a free community event; no ticket is required. The Moore is located at 1932 Second Ave in downtown Seattle.

Free Sheep Foundation has curated architectural investigations with shows like Motel #1: Bridge Motel, the Belmont, the Tubs Memorial project, and the 2400 3rd Ave Gallery Intervention projects. Focused on presenting site-specific performance and installation works, Free Sheep Foundation is dedicated to commenting on the cultural landscape of the city, our relationship with collective memory, and the meaning of modern urbanism.

4Culture Site-Specific is a unique collaboration between 4Culture, the network King County Local Arts Agencies, and King County artists. For over a decade, 4Culture has brought contemporary performances to communities throughout King County through the King County Performance Network (now called Site-Specific.) In 2005, the Network began a new focus on site-specific performances, taking contemporary art out of the theater, and integrating it into the daily life, work and play of audiences.

STG is the 501 (c)(3) non-profit arts organization that operates the historic Paramount and Moore Theatres in Seattle, Washington. Our mission is to make diverse performing arts and education an integral part of our region's cultural identity while keeping these two landmark venues alive and vibrant. STG presents a variety of shows from Broadway, off-Broadway, dance and Jazz or comedy, concerts of all genres, speakers and family shows - at both historic theatres in Seattle and at venues throughout Puget Sound and Portland, Oregon.

DAIPAN Discover Butoh -- Summer 2009

BUTOH RITUAL MEXICANO PERFORMANCE - OFFERING
by from intensive workshop participants: Sheri Brown, Diana Garcia-Snyder, Lin Lucas, Whitney Lawless, Jessica Gallusca, David Flaig, Kathryn Hightower, Viola Rose, & Caroline Riman under the guidance of Ritual Butoh Mexicano master Diego Pinon. Accompanied by live gong and percussion soundscape by Dean Moore.

West Seattle at Camp Long, Cabin 10 area
5200 35th ave sw
Seattle WA 98126
Get map.
Bus route #21.

"Through this process [the offering] , the dancer creates an artistic performance, deeply exposing who they are, making their request and their offering, creating an energetic exchange with the audience, inviting everyone to encounter a deep part of themselves and their connections to others. We can tranform our dance and our daily life, including our personal attitudes and behaviors, as well as our physical well being.

Then we experience a source of energy and knowing that is beyond our identity and imagination, connected deep into the earth, our ancestral origins, the energy within and beyond nature and all of who we are."

From Diego Piñón's website www.diegopinon.com

March 2008

February Butoh Study 2008 presents: Death Laugh

First Thursday March 4 2008

Choreography:
Vanessa Skantze and Sheri Brown.

Featuring:
February Butoh Study participants
and original, live music from Rosalyns DeRoos, Dean Moore, and Willow Fox

Location:
Tashiro Kaplan Vandenbrink Community Room
115 Prefontaine Place South
(between Yesler & Washington and 3rd & 4th Avenues, in Pioneer Square)

7:15 Doors open
7:30 Show begins

$5 - 15 suggested donation

Miscellanea

Manifold Motion's new production, Miscellanea is a special multi-disciplinary showcase features works headed by 7 artists from Seattle and New York.
Ranging from butoh to aerial dance, interactive installation to glass sculpture to poetry, Miscellanea includes something to delight everyone. Please come enjoy drinks and light snacks in a casual setting while Manifold Motion's artists bring the stage to life with dance pieces by Sheri Brown, Bridget Gunning, and Keely Isaak Meehan; music composed and performed by Jeremy Bieger and Monica Schley; installation art by Mike McCracken; and sculpture by Kyle von Wrangel Kinsey. Special guests include Leo Mayberry of Killing Frenzy Visuals and DJ WD4D.

Click here to go directly to ticket sales.

Where:
Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
4408 Delridge Way SW, Seattle, WA

When:
Friday February 29, 2008 @ 8pm
Saturday March 1, 2008 @ 8pm
Sunday March 2, 2008 @ 7pm

Ticket Information: $15, sliding-scale. Advance tickets are advised. Order online at Brown Paper Tickets or by calling 1-800-838-3006.

Recent Events

Come see our new crazy show, part of the Edge Program at the Seattle Center House, bringing the edge to the mainstream this Sunday Dec. 2, 2007 at 1:30pm.

Sheri Brown, Diana Garcia-Snyder, and Alan Sutherland with the Midway Orchestra present
Sacrament and Gluttony: The last potato, a Butoh dance theatre piece about appetite and sharing that mixes humor, holiness, control and chaos.

It's free and will rock some worlds, hard-rock circus punk butoh style:)

http://www.seattlecenter.com/winterfest/edge.asp

Hope September is finding you well and that you might have the time and inclination to come witness "Praying Walk," a Butoh Mexicano work-in-progress seeding-duet exploring the Universal River, the Cross, Ganesha, and The Cherry, next Saturday, September 15.

Diana Garcia-Snyder and I ("Azucar Acida") created the piece this summer in Tlalpuhajua, Mexico under the guidance of Diego Pinon, and are pleased to be able to share it inside the unique " Motel #1" framework (more information below) alongside a beautiful and incredible slate of other artists.

'Motel #1' lasts from 5pm to midnight, and "Praying Walk" #1/Seattle will occur at approximately 6pm.

BRIDGE MOTEL

3650 Bridge Way N

off Aurora, in Fremont

15 September 2007

5 PM - midnight

Bumbershoot

Sheri performed as busquing fairy princess at Bumbershoot all weekend long. September 1, 2 and 3, 2007 at the Seattle Center.

Sugah B Performance Art Solo Japan Tour

with with Japanese master musicians DubMarronics (guitar) and SAYOKO (voice)

- July 4th Yamaguchi (performance+lecture)
- July 5th/6th Kitakyusyu (performance)
- July 7th Fukuoka (performance)
- July 8th Kurume (performance)

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