Live Arts - TAKES - Nichole Canuso Dance Company

Weaving into the present what we thought we'd left behind.

Within a large cube wrapped in semi-transparent screens two dancers are seen performing fragments of their lives. Their performance is captured by video, woven into an elaborate frame of 'takes,' and projected back onto the screens. They mirror and respond to these captured images of themselves, allowing their live and video bodies to coalesce. They are confronted by their memories: intimate snapshots from real and remembered time.

TAKES is a genre-bending exploration of dance, video installation, and film. Viewable from 360 degrees, the audience is free to move around the space and shift perspective. You can walk around and observe the work as a live art installation, sit close and view the live performance, sit further away and watch the film, or place yourself somewhere in-between and see the live bodies engulfed in the images. Nichole Canuso and Dito Van Reigersberg (Welcome to Yuba City, Live Arts Festival, 2009) perform to Mike Kiley's elaborate score, which includes live music and found sounds.

'Nichole Canuso has a gift for creating movement communities . . . a gifted choreographer, who makes dancing seem inherently meaningful, social, and compelling.'
The Dance Insider

Conceived by choreographer Nichole Canuso (Wandering Alice, Live Arts Festival, 2008) and multi-media artist Lars Jan (Autopilot and The Sea, Live Arts Festival, 2006), TAKES represents the next level of Canuso's cross-discipline collaborative work, where dance, sound, and visuals meld into one

Direction Nichole Canuso and Lars Jan Choreography Nichole Canuso Media Installation Lars Jan Sound/Music Mike Kiley Production/Stage Management Sarah Chandler Costumes and Set Maiko Matsushima Video Software Pablo N. Molina Performers Nichole Canuso, Dito Van Reigersberg

During the day, visit the TAKES installation to create your own performance.