How does something stretch enormously? Can something extend without ending? Can it last forever?

Improvisational scores and task based movements will challenge our notions about time and how it can be altered. Durational performance creates the possibility of time and space in a world where both are scarce. We will explore ways to harness the magic of expanding moments, inviting others in while challenging the boundaries of performance and beauty. We will welcome the complexities of attention, entertainment and boredom as allies to our intentions, while we explore infinite time in our practice. From here to eternity.

Alice Gosti Bio

Alice Gosti is a transnational immigrant choreographer, curator and hybrid performance artist who creates site-responsive performance rituals and live art installations that examine how history and politics enter the body and condition how we move and relate. Gosti is also the founder and artistic director of MALACARNE, an all-womxn/nonbinary ensemble committed to co-authoring transformative performance rituals that fight reductive ideas regarding class, sexuality, gender, ability and ethnicity. Born and raised by installation architects in Perugia, Italy, she’s worked between Italy and occupied Duwamish and Coast Salish land (Seattle) since 2008.

Drawing on current and historical social realities, her projects center people made invisible by white-normative power structures, including: immigrants, womxn, trans-activists, Indigenous populations and those experiencing homelessness. Through “How to Become a Partisan,” “Material Deviance in Contemporary American Culture,” “Invisible Womxn” and “Bodies of Water,” she’s investigated fascism, unfettered capitalism, the othering of womxn and Seattle’s complex relationship to water.

Dance Magazine has described Gosti’s work as “unruly yet rigorous, feminine yet rebellious, task-like yet mischievous“, and SeattleDances.org described “How to become a partisan” as, “hypnotic, meditative, and profoundly beautiful, it left you with a certain sense of calm despite the heavy issues at its core.”

*Open to individuals of all movement backgrounds and levels.

More Info
https://www.fromthegrounduppdx.net/workshopsandintensives

Location
Historical Alberta House

Contact Email
katherineftgu@gmail.com