Welcome to Collabulous! April 12 - 14th, 2019

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!

Dancers in this multi-generational performance include:

  • John Agurkis
  • Anna Andahazy
  • Thern Anderson
  • Mary Bock
  • Robert Borman
  • Maija Brown
  • Wes Cannon
  • Sydney Enzler
  • Pam Gleason
  • Elana Gravitz
  • Lori Mercil
  • Alys Ayumi Ogura
  • Carol Oyanagi
  • Derek Phillips
  • Paige Powers
  • Julie Schuster
  • Kristine Spangard
  • Kamalar Tabor
  • Char Terrana
  • Alan Tse
  • Jen Warg

There will also be a showing of selected works of Edward Bock’s art in the theater lobby.

SHOW DETAILS:

Howard Conn Fine Arts Center
1900 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, 55403
(NW corner of Nicollet and Franklin)
Free and Ample Parking in Plymouth Congregational Church parking lot!

  • April 12, 2019 Friday, 7:30 pm
  • April 13, 2019 Saturday, 7:30 pm
  • April 14, 2019 Sunday, 2 pm

Tickets can be purchased ahead of time at Brown Paper Tickets – click here!
$20.00 General
$15.00 Children/Students/Seniors

Event Images

Drift

Choreography – Pam Gleason. Artwork – Ed Edward Bock. Dancers – John Agurkis, Lars Husom, Mary Setter Bock, Sydney Rose Enzler, Elana Gravitz, Alys Ayumi Ogura, Kristine Spangard, Alan Tse, Jen Warg. Photo – Larry Risser

Pedemorphosis

Choreography – Pam Gleason. Artwork – Edward Bock. Dancers – John Agurkis , Anna Andaházy, Robert Borman, Maija Brown, Elana Gravitz, Alys Ayumi Ogura, Paige Powers, Kristine Spangard, Kamalar Howard Tabor, Alan Tse, Jen Warg. Photos -Ed Bock

Five, Six, Seven

Choreography – Pam Gleason. Dancers- John Agurkis Lars Husom, Mary Setter Bock Edward Bock, Sydney Rose Enzler, Lori Mercil, Paige Powers. Photo – Larry Risser.

Last Impulse

Choreographer and Dancer – Pam Gleason. Photo – Larry Risser.

Strings Attached

Choreography – Pam Gleason. Dancers – Mary Bock, Sydney  Enzler, Lori Mercil, Alys Ayumi Ogura, Derek Phillips, Alan Tse. Musicians — Cassidy Asch, Charles Asch, Carol Lynn Courtney, Pat Norton, Sara Thompson. Photos – Larry Risser , Edward Bock