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2015 · Dance – stage work

The Invention of Wings

Brenda Way and KT Nelson (ODC/Dance)

A stage work by ODC/Dance about freedom, censorship, and confinement, adapted from the company's 2014 site-specific performance at Ai Weiwei's @Large exhibition on Alcatraz. It uses projected prison imagery and video by RJ Muna. Ben contributed music alongside tracks by Ólafur Arnalds and Ben Frost.

Premiere
2015-03-19
Venue
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (ODC/Dance Downtown, Program 2)
Where
San Francisco, CA
Performances
March 19–22, 2015 at YBCA (shared bill with KT Nelson's Dead Reckoning). It is a proscenium version of the site-specific 'Speaking Volumes', created for the opening of Ai Weiwei's @Large exhibition on Alcatraz, September 26, 2014. | [W243] Proscenium adaptation 'The Invention of Wings', YBCA, San Francisco, March 19–22, 2015.
Credits
Choreography: Brenda Way and KT Nelson; music/sound: Ólafur Arnalds, Ben Frost, and Ben Juodvalkis; scenery: Matthew Antaky; visual design/video: Ian Winters and RJ Muna; dancers incl. Josie G. Sadan, Natasha Adorlee, Jeremy Smith, Joseph Hernandez, Steffi Cheong, Justin Andrews, Dennis Adams, Katherine Wells.

Press

“There's a tortured score of static and discord by Olafur Arnalds, Ben Frost, and Ben Juodvalkis.”

“sound score by Olafur Arnalds, Ben Frost, and Ben Juodvalkis that includes the oppressive sound of a hospital respirator”

“sound score combining Olafur Arnalds, Ben Frost and Ben Judovalkis”

“There was a sound score by Olafur Arnalds, Ben Frost and Ben Juodvalkis.”

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