Record of the Anthropocene Movement | March 2017

Record of the Anthropocene Movement
World Premiere March 16 – 19, 2017 
Taproot Theatre Company’s Isaac Studio Theatre

Choreography- Karin Stevens

Music- Paul Rucker

Photography- Omar Willey

Read City Arts’s preview of Record of the Anthropocene Movement HERE, and read Karin and Kaitlin McCarthy’s full conversation HERE

More press for Record of the Anthropocene Movement
Not a Critique of Record of the Anthropocene Movement – Pamela Hobart Carter, Seattle Star

Record of the Anthropocene Movement is a collaboration between Karin Stevens, photography Omar Willey and composer Paul Rucker. Also featuring lighting by Sara Torres, costume design Ali Rose Panzarella and dancers/movement artists Naphtali Beyleveld, Timothy Johnson, Philippa Myler, Anja Kellner-Rogers, Noelle Price, Kelly Taylor, Alexandra Beatty Spencer, and Maia Veague.

Based on the “Five Elements” (or “Five Processes”) of Chinese philosophy, this piece connects dancers to the elements that make up Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. Their movements play out a history, a present, and some possible futures of the region in the era of the Anthropocene. Images from six years of photography are projected onto the wall behind the dancers, to create an environment that illuminates the dancers’ external world and their internal states. A unique combination of static images merge with the physical bodies of the dancers as they search for harmony and explore the precarious balance of humans and their environment.

Photos Karen Mason Blair, Omar Willey Poster Design Maris Antolin