Base Occasional No. 3, co-presented with On the Boards:
Base and On the Boards co-present Minneapolis-based choreographer Morgan Thorson in her acclaimed ensemble dance installation, Still Life, Aug. 1 - 4, 2019 at Base. Featuring a cast of dancers from both Seattle and Minneapolis, Still Life is structured as a dance/time cycle, exploring what it means to “kill” choreography by erasing material with each repetition. With the dance staged in close proximity to the viewer, Thorson creates a space for contemplation, processes the violence of the present moment, and creates a long-form choreography that investigates dance as a living and dying thing.
The work will run in five-hour durational segments for four days at Base, and features a cast of dancers from Portland, Minneapolis and Seattle, including Alyza DelPan-Monley, Fox Whitney, Jordan MacIntosh-Hougham and Meredith Pellon (understudy).
It was great to work with the Minneapolis cast of Still Life, because they already came to the process with so much knowledge about the aesthetics, intentions, and demands of the piece.
In this piece, moments some moments came and went in the blink of an eye, and other moments lasted much longer. Here, in this photo, we are holding these poses for around 8 minutes.