Collabulous! is a concert filled with fabulous collaborations between MotionArt director Pam Gleason, artist Edward Bock, musician/percussionist/composer Bruce Wintervold, musicians Sara Thompson and Pat Norton, cinematographers Guy Wagner and Nate Gebhard and lighting designer Mike Milkovich.

Enjoy a colorfully kinetic evening mixed with humor, pathos, idiosyncrasy, abstraction and musicality in this broad range of works to be presented. Gleason will premiere a new group dance inspired by Edward Bock’s “Drift Away” series of abstract, eye catching paintings with mesmerizing music composed by Bruce Wintervold. She will also reprise “Pedemorphosis”, a piece inspired by Bock’s Pedestrian figures which are projected on the dancers as they delve abstractly into the effect of human intention and chance interactions. Another premiere, “Strings Attached”, is a suite of dances exploring various aspects of the human psyche with classical and not-so-classical music performed by a live string ensemble with saxophone and percussion added to the mix. The ensemble, arranged by Sara Thompson, includes double bassist Thompson, cellists Pat Norton, Cassidy Asch and Charles Asch, with saxophone accompaniment by Carol Lynn Courtney and percussive effects by Kathie Goodale.

Also premiering will be a quirky quintet that plays with multiple time signatures in the music composed by Wintervold. And for those of you who were unable to make it to last year’s show due to an untimely April blizzard, you will have the opportunity to view Gleason’s collaboration with cinematographers Wagner and Gebhard of Splash Tantrum in a video of 32 dancers, spanning nine decades in life, who, along with some unexpected twists and turns, re-enact a famous chess match from the 1800s!