somaphrase: dancing the translation
join me with the modern dance awareness society for a unique workshop and site specific performance opportunity on the island of Andros, Greece. August 16 – 31 2012
by Damaris Webb
somaphrase: dancing the translation
join me with the modern dance awareness society for a unique workshop and site specific performance opportunity on the island of Andros, Greece. August 16 – 31 2012
by Damaris Webb
What does it mean to be black?
Is it the shade of your skin? The kink of your hair? Is it learned? What is its language, both in the body and on the tongue?
The Box Marked Black is a tender solo performance piece, tracing the experience of growing up mulatto in the pre-Huxtable era. With only Jenny Willis from The Jeffersons as a guide, our multi-disciplinary storyteller creates narrative from the perspective of both sides of her interracial family, embodying multiple characters, childhood memories (including a “Roots” sock puppet re-enactment) and fantasy.
“Yes, I knew the issue of diversity was important, but not till Damaris Webb in The Box Marked Black did diversity, dance, sing, do a puppet show– and winningly speak from, and to, the heart.”-Michael Wolk, Executive Director, All For One Theater Festival
IN PORTLAND, OREGON
Saturday, June 2nd at 5pm, Sunday, June 3rd at 7pm, Monday, June 4th at 9pm
Presented by The 1 Festival at The Headwaters Theater 55 NE Farragut #9
Tickets $15 & $10 Buy Tickets https://www.boxofficetickets.com/go/event?id=184445
Directions http://theheadwaters.net/?page_id=23
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IN BOULDER, COLORADO
Saturday, June 16th at 7pm & Sunday, June 17th at 3pm
Presented by We’re House at the We’re House Theater 5763 Arapahoe Ave. Unit P / Tickets $10 Buy Tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/245695
Directions http://www.thewerehouse.org/Directions.html
by Damaris Webb
Check out Crosstalk Coconut-
Created and performed by the Stenographers-
Téana David, Debra Disbrow and Damaris Webb
Dramaturgy by Ashley Hughes
syn·es·the·sia
1. (noun) from the ancient Greek “syn”, (together), and “aisthesis”, (sensation), is a neurologically based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.
2. The poetic description of a sense impression in terms of another sense, as in “a loud perfume.”
CROSSTALK COCONUT, a submersion into the neurological condition of synesthesia, is a visceral and stimulating romp examining known synesthetes such as Vladimir Nabokov, Joan Mitchell, Marian McPartland and others. This interdisciplinary theater piece with a winning DIY aesthetic by the Stenographers invites the audience to question: how much do our sense perceptions affect the way we want to communicate with the world?
What if you had no choice but to taste a personality? Or see explosions of magenta every time a word is spoken?
CROSSTALK COCONUT at Dixon Place,
161A Chrystie St. (between Rivington and Delancey)
THURS, MAY 17, 9:30 PM (One night only!)
https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9665654
THE STENOGRAPHERS is a new performance collective that builds interdisciplinary collaborative works, with a focus on documentary dance theater. Members Téana David, Debra Disbrow and Damaris Webb’s combined credits reflect original performance for Joyce Soho, Undergroundzero Festival, Movement Research, New York Int’l Fringe, Live Arts, Earthdance, Estrogenuis, NY Musical Theater Festival, and New Dramatists, amongst others. The three met while earning their MFA’s in Contemporary Performance at Naropa University. The Stenographers have developed the ensemble piece, HUETOPIA for the Fury Factory in San Francisco, and the solo piece THE BOX MARKED BLACK for Dixon Place.
by Damaris Webb
Dixon Place is to Produce Crosstalk Coconut a submersion into the neurological condition of synesthesia for May 17th. This is an original theater piece I am co-creating with three other theater makers under the performance group title of The Stenographers.
by Damaris Webb
I will be performing The Box Marked Black at Dixon Place 9:30 pm February 18th
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/905745
What does it mean to be black? Is it the shade of your skin? The kink of your hair? Is it learned? What is its language, both in the body and on the tongue?
The Box Marked Black is a tender solo performance piece, tracing the experience of growing up mulatto in the pre-Huxtable era. With only Jenny Willis from The Jefferson’s as a guide, our multi-disciplinary storyteller creates narrative from the perspective of both sides of her interracial family, embodying multiple characters, childhood memories (including a “Roots” sock puppet re-enactment) and fantasy.
by Damaris Webb
Huetopia Reflections from our submersion into the neurological condition of synesthesia, and the larger question of how each one of us relates to our own sense perceptions.
Monstrous! Studio Showing. What is a monster? The fruits of our investigation into the nature of human monstrosity, the life of Mary Shelly, and our love for the story of Frankenstein’s Monster.
by Damaris Webb
I am in Boulder teaching Red Square Practice to undergraduates as a visiting guest artist at Naropa, and supporting my mentor Barbara Dilley on her book project. I am also observing her work with the BFA students. What a wonderful opportunity to be in the room with her in the mornings and then go on to teach her work in the afternoons, and then reflect on the lineage of work in the evenings!
by Damaris Webb
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by Damaris Webb
I am now on the Ryan Artists Acting and Voice Over Rosters!
by Damaris Webb
Slow down, refresh your senses, and delight your inner eye as New York based teaching artist, Damaris Webb, leads two Wednesday evening workshops for making on-the-spot compositions using found objects.
Through mindfulness of our everyday use of sense perceptions and gentle awareness of the stories space inherently holds, we will unfold our imaginations and aesthetics!
Come as you are – no experience necessary
7-9pm
Wednesday August 24th & Wednesday September 7th
at Leaven Project 5431 Northeast 20th Avenue
Workshop space limited to 12 participants, and is offered free of charge through The Leaven Project. Please RSVP to damaris.webb@gmail.com