Motion, Air and Strings

Sleepdance (Brooklyn, NY)

February, 2008

Women’s Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT

Presented by Wasatch Dance Collective and Dance Theatre Coalition, Brooklyn based sleepdance will perform Music for Motion, Air and Strings, February 20-25 at the Women’s Art Center in Salt Lake City, UT.  Music for Motion, Air and Strings is an evening-length work in which dancers and musicians methodically manipulate a set of elasticized sheet music suspended from a fabric ceiling.  Aided by dancers Angela Helland, Jen Kosky and Stephanie Sleeper, violist Stephanie Griffin and saxophonist Chris Mannigan play the contemporary music of Arthur Kampela, Tristan Murail, Tony Prabowo, Chinary Ung, and Phillip Glass.  The performers offer a physical interpretation of the music, while negotiating the tension inherent in an environment where everything is weighted, suspended, and elastic.

Artistic Director of sleepdance, Stephanie Sleeper, holds her B.F.A in Modern Dance from the University of Utah.  She has shown work at Waxworks, Studio A.I.R., and Williamsburg, Freefest.   As a performer and/or costume designer she has worked for Wasatch Dance Collective, SB Dance, Repertory Dance Theatre, and Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.. 

Cast: Stephanie Griffin, Angela Helland, Jen Kosky, Chris Mannigan, Stephanie Sleeper