DAKA performance at Velocity and Airport Project video

Velocity Dance Center Presents:
Next Fest NW
What Northwest dance artists are doing RIGHT NOW!

Live Performance December 12 – December 14, 2008 @ 8 PM
Velocity MainSpace Theater 915 E. Pine, 2nd Floor Odd Fellows Building
Next Dance Cinema December 4 @ 7 PM The Henry Art Gallery (free)
Next Dance Cinema December 11 @ 7 PM at the Northwest Film Forum
Tickets $17 Live Performance, $10 Next Dance Cinema

To purchase tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com

Information: (206) 325-8773 www.velocitydancecenter.org
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ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:
Velocity Dance Center presents Next Fest NW, an amazing collection of dance and dance films, featuring some of the most engaging voices coming out of the Pacific NW

This years’ festival presents live choreography (December 12-14, 2008 at 8 PM) by northwest artists Carla Barragan, Suniti Dernovsek (PDX), Alice Gosti w/ DAKA, Kelly Sullivan, and Aiko Kinoshita /Aaron Swartzman;

As well as dance films in Next Dance Cinema (December 4 at The Henry and December 11 at Northwest Film Forum, screenings at 7 PM) curated by Karn Junkinsmith by Paige Barnes/The Music of Grayface, Carla Barragan, Corrie Befort, Catherine Cummings, Kristina Dillard, Yuki Enomoto, Alice Gosti [AIRPORTPROJECT], Karn Junkinsmith, Ricki Mason, Erika Mayfield, Megan Mertaugh, Renee Rhodes, Adam Sekuler, Nathan Vass/Rachel Randall, and Jenna Veatch.

this is what they wrote on the press release:
Alice Gosti has created 2times3 by merging two of her award winning dances, WonderBra (2007) and 3 (2008), into one transporting piece. The women in the world of 2times3 move in space, each woman dealing with the questions her life presents. Gosti focuses on creating a multi-sensorial world/atmosphere in which the movement performed is aimed at moving the viewers in a motional and emotional way. The performers are Devin McDermott, Shannon Narasimhan, Anh Nguyen, Rachel Randall, and Katherine Riggs. Follow 2times3 and their recent adventures in Ravenna, Italy at the Showcase of Young Dance and Choreography at http://3daka.blogspot.com/

from the festival in Italy - Ravenna

photo by Dario Bonazza

http://ammutinamenti.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/alice-gosti/

Photo's of the show in Ravenna
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cantieridanza/page3/

check it out

http://www.velocitydancecenter.org/index.htm

DAKA performance in Seattle!

a new version of 3 will be performing at Velocity for the Next Fest Northwest.
Heads up for more info.
Performance will be at Velocity Main Space December 12-15th!

Come see us!

alice

In the Media

http://www.cantieridanza.org/
http://ammutinamenti.wordpress.com/il-quotidiano-del-festival/

daka premier

from alice & anh

-we did it. last night was the performance ... we were to go fourth, then second, then fourth, then finally second. what an emotional rollercoaster. i think some other dancers were trying to fuck with our heads. there was tons of smoke and alice got to sit in the booth with the tech boys. .. who are actually our age (opposed to the techs here in the states who are ... not). we were so amazing. one girl commented "it was, i think, the best one i have seen yet. i do not have to think when i watch it. it was simple, the lighting, and the images were beautiful." and we said, 'omgomgomgomg. graaaaazie.'

-katie and devin left last night so it is now just alice and I. we were done with our task and partied hard. but this morning we went to the feedback session to receive comments about our piece. gooood stuff.

-a bit crazy to be finished with months of hard work in less than 11 minutes. but now we can move on the bigger things. Madonna - here we come. TOUR 2009!

Catching You Up To Today: 9/16/08

So much has happened since I arrived on the 10th but I'll pick up from where Anh left off. The opening of the Sanford/Gosti studio went beautifully. The food spread was incredible: olives, chunks of parmigiano, slices of prosciutto hand cut at the studio, spicy peppers stuffed with tuna, breads and of course pasta and vino. I could go on and on about the food because it was so fabulous, but more fabulous was the support from friends and family that came to the opening. The girls and I mingled for a bit before it was time to do our improve behind the scenes and I think I speak for everyone when I say we were rather nervous. Alice's parents had strategically placed collected items into a wall like structure so we could perform behind it without anyone seeing. Behind the wall we hooked up a camera that connected to the T.V. where I guests were visiting and when our performance was to start, the video would stream live to the T.V. making it appear as if we had recorded our improve earlier on. All and all I think the improve went really well considering Devin, Anh, Alice and I have never improved together like that before. It lasted for about 15-20 minutes and you could tell the minute our audience noticed something happening on the T.V screen because everyone fell silent. Alice's mom graciously tried making conversation with her guests to relieve the silent pressure if you will, but everyone seemed content remaining quiet. Our performance ended and we appeared out from behind our hiding spot, the crowd cheering. With excitement in the air, adults and children started dancing together to new music and old which ended the night on a fabulous note. 

The girls and I as well as Lorenzo, Marzia, Marco and Olga (dear friends of Alice) continued dancing however for the rest of the evening outside the city at a club called Red Zone. According to Lorenzo who is a PR for the club and has his own table which was huge for the night, Red Zone is the most famous dance club in the center of Italy if not for the whole country. He got us in for a discounted fee, free alcohol was served to our table every half hour or so and most importantly we got a chance to dance to some outstanding music. Tons of lights, fog machines, a giant disco ball, sexy men in booty shorts, it was quite the scene to see. Our night ended at 6AM followed by whip cream filled pastries at a bakery back in town. WHAT A NIGHT!

Since then we've started to get down to business rehearsing and taking workshop classes at Alice's studio. Bruno our workshop instructor and Alice's old teacher is absolutely fantastic. He attentively pays attention to all his students--providing advice, corrections and motivation throughout the entire two hours. During warm up he kindly translates counts, steps and explanations into English so Devin, Anh and I can understand. Our last combination was too much fun and he plans on expanding on it today. Needless to say I'm incredibly sore because this is the most movement I've done in months. I came down with mono in early August and wasn't allowed to dance or rehearse. Now that I'm better, my body is on the brink of falling apart because it's not use to moving. Okay that's not entirely true...again I'm just really sore, but I'm taking it day by day and thus far things are going really well. Tomorrow we leave for Ravenna and the festival will start. AHHHHHHHH it's going to be great. 

P.S. Two Italian magazines have advertised Anticorpi XL and Alice's name made it into both of them. SHE'S FAMOUS!!! 

The SHOW - Lo Spettacolo

Come see us! Veniteci a vedere!

VENERDì 19 SETTEMBRE
Dalle ore 21.00, Artificerie Almagià, via Magazzini Posteriori biglietto € 7,00 (Posti limitati, si consiglia la prenotazione)
Here you are! - Schuko (Lombardia)
3 - Alice Gosti (Umbria) DAKA
The end of a love affair- Luca Zangheri (Marche)
Null - Marta Zollet (Veneto)
F.S.A. Fakeness Selfdestruction Anticlimax - Helen Cerina (Marche)

Itali-Anh!

Day 1 in Italy was a bit strange, as it should be. Devin and I were just two lost Americans in the airport trying to figure out the public pay phones that really should be looked at for user-friendliness improvement. We figured it out though, and eventually when we found Alice, it was such a relief...
The first thing we had to do of course was have coffee...I will have to say that cappuccino will never taste the same unless I am in this country. I must say a cup of this and a pastry a day makes me miss eggs in the morning but I just urge the girls to feed me soon after breakfast.
We took the most ridiculous 5 hour tour of Rome guided by our favorite Italian. She showed us many many sites, many of which I cannot remember names of now but I will have them recorded one day when I catalog the many pictures we took. My blurry camera phone was not cutting it when it came to capturing the detail of all the monuments, statues, and fountains. Hopefully, when we scan Devin's, I can keepsake better copies.
Later after we exhaust ourselves from walking around the city in a large circle, we go back to Alice's best friends home where we gather our bags to visit her home town, Perugia! Ah, what a beautiful city. I think because it is on a hill, that's why it feels the most at home (so far compared to Florence and Rome). Or maybe it's the fact that Alice knows this city the best.
Lots of walking and such makes dancers hungry, right? So every time a meal draws near I am fiending for some delicious authentic italian food...I don't think i will ever make a sandwich without prosciutto again! And mozzerella balls? I think i need a cold bowl of them next to my bed every night.
Day 2 was a relaxing kind of day where we begin to figure out the details of our Ravenna trip and how to bring Katie to us...
Best of all, this evening we got to take our first dance class in Italian at Alice's old studio. It was 'stretching' class ... yeeeaaahh...I guess we needed it.
Day 3 was Firenze. Beautiful, hot, and has a great market. nuff said. Alice left us on day 4. DAK had a great time but missed her very much. Pictures to come...
Ok...So we are preparing to perform in the inaugaration of Alice's parents' studio. We plan to do a site specific improv and eat and drink and chill old school. The studio is such a great place. I hope we can do this everytime we come back.

Well, I miss Seattle, but am not quite ready to come back. I need to freshen up my Italian and eat at an Italian grandmother's house. ;-) Once this happens - oh yea, and when we perform - then I cannot wait to come home to try and mimic all the great things I experience here. I hope summer is good for you too, whereever you are! Devin, Alice, Katie and I will be keeping you posted on all the good stuff 'til then.

pace - a

DAKA in Italia - Firenze

Finally Katie met us on the 10th in PG, and the next day we adventured right away to Florence.
I came back here in PG, since my video INbetweenLINES is showing for Germinazioni 2008,
http://test.leartiincitta.it/?q=node/219

DAA in Rome

DAA at the colosseo, rome



Fontana di Trevi in rome

Katie met us the next day in Perugia. On the 9th I went to get Anh and Devin at the airport in Rome and we spent a crazy tourist day in Rome then catch the train to Perugia! We almost did not make it, trains in Italy are never on time!

Here in Italy

Hello all,
the trip has finally started. On the 2nd I packed and left Seattle, really early in the morning. My roommate and I went to the Hurricane cafe to have a last American breakfast, at least for a couple weeks. I got to Rome on the 3rd and ran into Mark! how awesome!
Katie, Devin and Anh will be arriving on the 9th at the Rome airport...from then we will be mixing site seeing with rehearsing and taking some classes at my old studio...
that's that for now
the passed is always heavy!
Alice

thank you

Thank you all that came to see the show this week-end!
Thank you for your support, and dancers, for your hard work.
Alice

show coming up soon

Hello RSVP soon, since the show is coming up quickly!!!
In this concert you will see:
choreography by Alice Gosti, Rachel Randall and Twyla Tharp (I am not joking, some of the Chamber Dance Company Members will perform The Fugue)
videos by Alice Gosti, David Lorence and Jessie Smith

Also here is the article that the UW Daily did about our benefit show:
http://dailyuw.com/2008/8/13/uw-dance-trio-perform-italy/

about the process

This is a little paragraph on how the work developed...

Each dancer was given a pen and paper, directed to write about central issues or ideas in their lives. From then on, for nearly three months, we created, added, cut, and played with movement derived from these writings. The study developed into a coherent performance piece in which three solos happen at the same time. In the end, the solos appeared to have virtually no common elements yet succeeded in relating and talking to one another.

Info

3 began as an experiment; a study of the distinction between mere execution of movement and performance authored by individuals, as it was Alice’s desire was to escape body virtuosity and meaningless movement. With this piece, Alice received an Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography from the University of Washington Dance Program.

Enthusiastic about the support voiced from friends, family and artists, we plan to host a benefit performance in which 3 will be performed along with other works from the surrounding community. Our mission is to fund raise a minimum of $500, which covers application fees and a small portion of travel expenses. We are kindly asking you to offer a contribution towards this project. Any amount will greatly help our cause.

3

Dance Majors Concert 2008
Photo by Tim Summers