SDSU Studio Theater (tickets available at Smith Recital Hall Box Office or at music.sdsu.edu)
Saturday, November 19, 8:00PM
tickets: $8 (student), $12 (general)

Rebecca Bryant will perform her newest solo entitled Suite Female: Part I, a piece that Chicago dance critic Zachary Whittenburg called “limited in palette, albeit exploding with suggestions...” Part of Bryant’s Suite Female series, this solo focuses on cultural constructions of female identity within Western culture using book titles and rigorously improvised movement.

The Past Modern Performance Duo’s latest piece, A Moment of Danger, combines non-traditional music and dance-making strategies to deal with notions of risk-taking in contemporary performance. Percussion is played on circular saw blades, dance phrases are built by negotiating safety cones, and car crash simulations create a backdrop for this satirical look at making a “safe” performance.

The short film Movements In and Out of Time is an international collaboration between four time-based artists blending dance, visual art, music, and video. Using Eiichi Tosaki’s Bimanual Coordination Drawings (asymmetrical compositions drawn with both hands) as a point of departure, dancer Rebecca Bryant and musicians Don Nichols and Reiko Manabe improvise performative responses which are intricately collaged together in a visually striking film.

Rebecca Bryant, Don Nichols, Leslie Seiters, and Ron Estes have been meeting in performance over the last several years. They will gather again in San Diego in the second half of this evening of work.