moved
(CEC's New Edge Mix
January 2008)
Dance artist Emily Sweeney and electronic musician Bilwa performed "moved", inspired by the
sculpture of Auguste Rodin, as part of the Community Education Center's New Edge Mix series on January 11-13, 2008.
gasp
(Philly Fringe Festival
September 2007)
In gasp, Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd uses the performers' bodies as points of genesis: dancers are accompanied by their own breath manipulated by electronic musicians Bilwa and Mikronesia, while their bodies metamorphose via live video projection by John Phillips. Movement created by Emily Sweeney in collaboration with dancers Rebecca Patek, Daniele Strawmyre, Zornitsa Stoyanova, and Christina Zani.
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gasp was performed as part of "Fresh Juice," a shared evening of dance, video, and multimedia performance. Presented by Mascher Space Coop in Kensington, it featured the work of six Mascher resident artists. Dubbed the “next collective art space” in 2007 by Philadelphia Weekly in their Next Philadelphia issue, Mascher Space Coop members Meg Foley, Erin Foreman-Murray, Makoto Hirano, Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd, Zornitsa Stoyanova, and Christina Zani collaborated to produce fresh works, fresh ideas, fresh (as in recently arrived; just come) juice (essence, strength, or vitality).
The Rashomon Effect III
(March 2007)
The Rashomon Effect is an ongoing investigation of an improvised score based on the storytelling method employed in Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomôn.
The term "Rashomon effect" refers to the effect of subjectivity on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it. In this installment, 16 performers inhabit a score in which sound and movement themes are introduced and revisited by each performer, morphing and expanding as memories do with each pass around the circle.
Zornitsa Stoyanova.mvmt<>Sean Mattio.snd
Rebecca Patek.mvmt<>Amanda Louise Lewis.snd
Allison Lorenzen.mvmt<>Mikronesia.snd
Loren Groenendaal.mvmt<>Pandar.snd
Jil Stifel.mvmt<>Bianka Brunson.snd
Daniele Strawmyre.mvmt<>Jeb Lewis.snd
Emily Sweeney.mvmt<>Robin MacArthur.snd
Bilwa.ltng<>Tyler Gibbons.snd
The Rashomon Effect II
(January 2007)
Rebecca Patek.mvmt<>Mikronesia.snd
Allison Lorenzen.mvmt<>Bilwa.snd
Zornitsa Stoyanova.mvmt<>Helena Espvall.snd
Daniele Strawmyre.mvmt<>Emily Sweeney.mvmt
The Rashomon Effect I
(December 2006)
Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd presents (the return of) The Rashomon Effect, an improvisational series based on the storytelling method employed in Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomôn
Allison Lorenzen.mvmt<>Mikronesia.snd
Rebecca Patek.mvmt<>Bilwa.snd
Zornitsa Stoyanova.mvmt<>Sean Mattio.snd
Emily Sweeney.mvmt<>Helena Espvall.snd
John Phillips.video
The WAsh Cycle
(September 2006)
Movement, sound, light, and fabric installation at the 10th Street Laundromat in South Philadelphia.
Zornitsa Stoyanova.mvmt
Emily Sweeney.mvmt
Bilwa.snd
Mikronesia.snd