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FUTURE:

you are a vast landscape (2014)

In development with support from 4Culture. 

 

CURRENT/TOURING

Come.Get.To.This. (2013)

A work in three sizes: working class, petit bourgeois, and one percent

Come.Get.To.This. is a dance about making a dance.  It weaves together a transparent creative process, set and scored choreography, audience engagement, and a narrative about resources, the economy, and personal stories of artists and participants.  

Come.Get.To.This. (working class version) was completed in June 2013 and performed at Seattle International Dance Festival and Risk/Reward in Portland Oregon.  Research performances have taken place at  On the Boards (12 Min Max), Movement Research (Open Performance) and Velocity Dance Center (WWT@WWT@).

 

 

 

Come.Get.To.This - Work sample from The Real Shannon Stewart on Vimeo.

"Dynamic" by Deborah Hay, adapted by Shannon Stewart (2013)

Selected as one of twenty participants to work with Deborah Hay in her very last iteration of the Solo Performance Commissioning Project, I spent two weeks in Scotland learning "Dynamic," originally titled, A song, a sea.  I have since completed my nine month daily practice and begun the process of adaptation both for performance and 35mm film.

The last photo of my daily "Dynamic" practice by James Arzente

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Inner Place That Has No Place (2013)

Choreographer: Shannon Stewart with dancers
Dancers: Meredith Horiuchi, Mary Margaret Moore, Aaron Swartzman, Rosa Vissers, and David Wolbrecht

Composer: Jeff Huston

Video: Adam Sekuler

Original Lighting Design: Jessica Trundy

Costumes: Rachel Ravitch

D e s c r i p t i o n

An Inner Place That Has No Place is an evening-length performance work created by myself in collaboration with filmmaker Adam Sekuler, composer Jeff Huston, and performers Meredith Horiuchi, Mary Margaret Moore, Aaron Swartzman, Rosa Vissers, and David Wolbrecht, illustrating remembering as a process of recreation rather than reproduction.  It looks at the content of memories lost either because of time or the myriad of reasons we intentionally forget--fear, shame, regret, grief --and posits them next to absurd life documentation to ask if recollection of life is intentionally or accidentally fictional.

An Inner Place That Has No Place (reel) from The Real Shannon Stewart on Vimeo.