Party: Felt Room

Party: Felt Room

Installation runs
June 29 from 6-9pm & June 30 from 7-10pm
June 30 2-5pm

Audiences are invited to arrive and depart in their own timing. Come for the whole arc or part. $10-20 suggested donation. Pay in advance at https://www.paypal.me/BodyCartography or pay at the door. Space is limited to 30. Bookings are essential. Email [email protected] to reserve.

Olive Bieringa’s felt room is a performance installation designed to conjure imagination, speculation and perception, engaging viewers in a practice of vibrant potentiality. In the darkness of the felt room viewers are offered an escape from a world of constant illumination. Energy, vibration, intimacy and imagination are the primary materials at play. Dancers move into and out of the darkness, transforming our perceptual field. Unfolding somatic landscapes offer an opportunity for a deeply felt personal experience, one that can be at once disorienting, deeply therapeutic and profoundly energizing.

“From darkness to dimness to light – the “felt room” was a revelation.” Caroline Palmer, Big Town Dance Blog

“I’d recommend the felt room to anyone who feels like their imagination is powerful but held captive to their own mental restraints.” Carleton College dance student.

Direction/choreography: Olive Bieringa. Sound Design: Justin Jones. Lighting Design: Mike Wangen
Support for this project comes from Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Carleton College, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Alumni New Works grant and a residency from the Headlands Center for the Arts.

To learn more visit http://bodycartography.org/portfolio/thefeltroom/

White Page Gallery: http://the-white-page.org/ABOUT