A variety show with local performance artists Julie Becton Gillum, John Crutchfield, Jim Julien, Claire Elizabeth Barratt, Elisa Faires, Alexander Jacobs, Julia DeVita, Qi Shen & Natalie Arosemema-Achi
Admission: $5, $3 BMCM+AC members/students w/ID
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Performances include “Black Snow Flying Upwards or My Embarrassment” by John Crutchfield which he describes as “a jittery vaudeville solo about a monotonous crucifixion”; Jim Julien’s “In Search of a New Delicious”, a short monologue on recent scientific discoveries in the perception of taste and a live demonstration of sensory excitement. Claire Elizabeth Barratt will present a motion sculpture/movement installation titled “Come” and “Go”. This performance will be in the front window of BMCM+AC to greet the audience upon arrival and wish them farewell as they depart.
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Several of the performers are from Warren Wilson College where they take a class from well-known local performer and Butoh dancer Julie Becton Gillum. As a teacher Gillum says she “…wants her students to seek out knowledge, to develop their creative communication skills and to discover multiple levels of meaning in their work and lives.” She is interested in the ways that a performance artist’s physical presence within their work evokes the potential for awareness and transformation. {mosimage}
Performer Bios:
As founder of three modern dance companies and, most recently, Legacy Butoh, Julie Becton Gillum has been creating, performing and teaching dance in the United States, France, Cuba, and Mexico for more than 40 years. She currently teaches modern dance, musical theatre dance, performance art and Butoh at Warren Wilson College. Gillum has been practicing, performing and teaching Butoh since 1998, creating and presenting major pieces in the genre at a variety of venues in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Mexico.
John Crutchfield is a poet, playwright, and performer based in Asheville, where he teaches part-time at Warren-Wilson College. His play “Twelve Treatises on Memory” was produced as part of NCStage's Catalyst Series in 2007. A new play, “Ivory”, will premier this coming June at the BeBe Theatre in a production by Corpus Theatre Collective.
Jim Julien has been creating performance-based artwork since 1972 when he was a student at Carnegie-Mellon University. He has been part of the Asheville Fringe Arts Festival since its inception. Over the years he has used movement, puppetry, multimedia and lots of pudding in his work. He also played a zombie in last year's Lexfest.
Claire Elizabeth Barratt (Cilla Vee) has a Dance and Musical Theater background, with training received in her native country of Britain at the London Studio Center of Performing Arts and the Laban Center for Movement and Dance. She is a former company member of Asheville Contemporary Dance Theater as well as a choreographer for opera and musical theater plus cross-disciplinary collaborations and other independent projects.
She is the founder of “Cilla Vee Movement Projects”, a multi-disciplinary performing arts organization and has performed in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan. She served a one-year apprenticeship with Lori Belilove & Company of the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation, is performance curator for Bronx based Gallery “Haven Arts” and is currently an adjunct faculty member of DanceSpace 637 in Ottawa, Ontario.
Claire has been featured in Art Basel Miami, the Washington DC International Improv Festival, the Transmodern Age and High Zero Festivals in Baltimore, MD and the Dans/CE Kapital Festival in Ottawa. Much of her work focuses on collaboration with live music in an improvisational context.
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