Lucifer

performed by Vanessa Skantze

movement, voice, song with sound accompaniment

Saturday May 5, 2007

Good Shepherd Center chapel in Wallingford, Seattle

Friday May 11, 2007

Issue Project Room Brooklyn, New York
400 Carroll St, $10, 8 pm

Sunday May 20, 2007

L'Antic Teatre Barcelona, Spain
Verdaguer i Callís 12

LUCIFER performed by VANESSA SKANTZE. A resurrection of this performance piece, which originally premiered at Zeitgeist Theatre Experiments in New Orleans with Alex Haverfield in 2001. Vanessa Skantze recreates the mysteries and covenant of this extraordinary creature informed by nearly six years of intense butoh dance training and performance and voice experimentation. Inflamed by a radical reading of Milton and filtered through the study and experience of spiritual exile, Lucifer embodies the anguish and joy of carnality in its most extreme lucidity-- a light being become flesh, willingly. Within the body is generated a nexus of light and dark--fomenting a dissolution of judgment into a realm of raw sensuality that tears and feeds the soul in each moment and joyously renounces the opium of conceptual heaven.

The piece is a movement/voice work with sound accompaniment, ranging from assaultive to haunting, performed live by celadon and natazatán of In the Deep Museum.

"I perform the piece naked, coming out painted white and dancing my willed fall into a spiral of dirt-- which blackens my body. The essence of the piece which compelled me to return to it is the willing descent into the flesh, which is my chosen instrument as a dancer, simultaneously the exhortation of all who do not plunge into all the possibilities of deep experience the body offers. As a butoh dancer my art is a kind of willed possession, my body constantly transforming into energies/elements/creatures. As a creature, as a light being who desired creaturely experience, Lucifer writhes, undulates, tremors and contorts with delicious abandon, pain and pleasure of incarnation simply different facets of physical intensity, not judged (non-judgment of feeling/experience being a huge facet of butoh dance for me and simultaneously Lucifer's rebellion)."

Press release for Seattle Performance of Lucifer

press:
The Score, The Stranger
Dance calendar, Seattle Weekly

for more information, contact vanessa@deathposture.org