Motionhouse

Motionhouse Scattered

2.10 SUN | 7PM | Baker $36/30
Scattered combines Motionhouse’s trademark highly physical dance theatre and mesmerizing aerial imagery in a unique interaction between film and live performance. It explores our relationship with water and how it surrounds us in different forms throughout our lives: in birth water ties us to life and on a more elemental scale, in ice, floods and tides, it can sweep our lives away. Scattered delves into the majesty and savagery of water, a fundamental force in our lives as seven dancers plunge into an ocean, wrestle a raging tide and slide on an avalanche to a frozen landscape of arctic beauty.

Performed on a huge curved floor which disappears skywards, Scattered Motionhouse thrills the audience with an aerial arena combining choreography with silks, harnesses and video to create a stunning visual performance experience that, “…thrills the senses and tricks the eye.” (Bournemouth Daily Echo)

6PM | Lecture | Artistic directors Kevin Finnan and Louise Richards discuss the company, their philosophy, how they work with media and
their repertoire. A Q&A will follow.

Poster Session and Display area in the Butz Lobby before and after the performance.

Zoellner is launching a new initiative to connect learning and research efforts from campus and in partnerships with other community organizations. With the upcoming presentation of Motionhouse: Scattered, we have an opportunity to share information about water-themed research from student design teams in the IPD program, as well as faculty research from such departments as Earth and Environmental Science and Civil and Environmental Engineering. We are also partnering with community organizations that provide education about water issues.

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“Along with the large set, the show integrates film, dance, original music and aerial work. And I’m proud to say it’s a great watch that moves at a real clip. A lot of contemporary dance is very abstract,” he notes. “But for me, I’m interested in context, as opposed to just a human form in space.”
Click here to read more about their recent performance in Florida!