Three Shades of Dark (2007)
Marking the first collaboration between The Seldoms and ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble), Three Shades of Dark is a work in three scenes, presenting variations on themes of instinct and consciousness, sight and sightlessness. Three Shades of Dark is an homage to movement and sound born of shadow - bodies pry open mouths, tense into knots, or become instruments for a percussive language.
"In this, their first collaboration, ICE and The Seldoms have discovered a mutual affinity for powerful images dredged up form the gloomy mines of experience and imagination...be assured that the intellectually adventuresome, whistle-clean aesthetic shared by ICE and The Seldoms wrings an odd beauty from the grotesquerie of these images."
Credits
- Choreography by Carrie Hanson
- Music: Sound of Hand by Huang Ruo, Poison Mushroom by Dai Fujikura, ?Corporel by Vingko Globokar
- Costume by Abigail Glaum-Lathbury with Pate Conaway
- Lighting Design by Margaret Nelson
- Video Direction: Ted Hardin
- Camera Operation: Brad Besser, Vince Clemente, and Louis Holland
- Set pieces by Joel Huffman, Vertu, Inc.
- Dance performance by Christina Gonzalez-Gillett, Jen Grisham, Carrie Hanson, Amanda McAlister with David Schotzko and Claire Chase