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TICKETS: To reserve tickets e-mail Carla@bqdance.com, or call(206) 931-5787. Leave your name, date of show you would like to attend, and how many tickets.You can also purchase them at the door, at 6:30pm. Tickets are $15 in advance (with reservation), or $18 at the door. Children under 12, $7 in advance, $10 at the door. We thank 4Culture for a group art project grant! BLOGSPOT Please come back after the show and coment at our blogspot: http://bqdanza.blogspot.com/ You can also see videos and photos here. For the latest review click here. |
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Quote: The opening number Nincompoopiana, an unusual blend of puppetry and dance choreographed by Carla Barragan, had a group of performers outfitted in colorful costumes with detailed patterns reminiscent of Aztec art, slowly ambling across the stage in measured steps like alien gingerbread men. Eerie at first, they became oddly intimate when their relationships became more recognizable. Later in the piece they called to one another and indulged in playful games in a jungle boogie of percussive music layered over ambient forest sounds. (Steve Ha..Seattledances.com) |
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Nincompoopiana
Nincompoopiana, a new piece by Barragán and BQdanza members, explores waiting and rebellion against the status quo through whimsical movement by five larger than life puppets. There was an aesthetic movement called Nincompoopiana that began in the 1880’s, which rebelled against the pretty and the respectable. Carla Barragán borrows the second meaning to weave real and made-up scenarios in which the puppets, portraying archetypes that seemingly don't get along, realize they do need each other to survive.
The exciting challenge for the company is to develop the performance language. The dancers animate the puppet characters from within through a mixture of puppetry techniques and contemporary dance creating a new, merged movement language - not typical of the puppetry world, in which hands and head are the most important.
Welcome: LauraAschoff, Elizabeth Anne Jackobson, Rachel Grant, Amanda Herman Record, and Diana Gracía-Snyder, who are dancing with BQdanza in 2011-2012.