Fundraising Event May 13th for the BAAD Tour and Uprooted Dance
Just Announced
May 13th Keira Hart-Mendoza & I have teamed up to do a gallery performance at Osuna Gallery in Bethesda MD. The fundraising dance event is set amidst a back drop of light sculptures by DC-based artist Craig A. Kraft.
Intentional Unintentional Dances
Performed and Created by Keira Hart-Mendoza & Layla Marcelle Mrozowski
At the Osuna Gallery in Bethesda MD
7200 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, MD 20814
May 13th 7pm
What~ Intentional Unintentional Dances is based on a set of light sculptures created by DC Artist Craig A. Kraft. Keira & Layla will present a collection of short dance vignettes inspired by various light sculptures. They are using a similar process in which to create dances, using scrap material, letting their minds and bodies flow freely during the creation process. To learn more about Craig's artistic process read below~
""I consider these works to be “found objects”, not unlike the cave paintings that the surrealist artist Brassai photographed and called “unintentional poetry” in the 1930s. These drawings have been created all of my artistic life on scraps of paper, newspapers, and, especially in the early years, directly on the pant legs of my jeans. Call it neurotic energy flowing uncontrollably out of my hands or, in today’s terms, ADD. By their very nature, these drawings were made without preconceptions, and were executed while my consciousness was focused on something else. They deliver something quite unexpected, and they draw attention to those very small voices within us, the nuances of the mind, that go mostly ignored and unrecognized.
In the transformation of these unintentional drawings into neon, they take on new meanings. No longer incidental or forgotten, they now stand on their own as significant and meaningful. A discovery made during the process was the sheer quantity and complexity of the wire, electrodes, and transformers needed to run the neon; their combined effect startles the senses. The reverse of the work became the mechanics of the piece, the rational side as opposed to the intuitive side exposed on the front. The resultant tension adds a significant synergistic effect to the piece as a whole.""
Causes: This will be a FREE performance with a suggested donation. Donations will be split between the two dance artists towards specific projects~
Layla will be raising money for the dance/bike tour she is about to embark on >> More info here
Keira will be raising money to produce her upcoming show at the Jack Guidone Theater on June 12th. More info here
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