LA: I Love You So Much, SQUEEZE ME TO DEATH
The immersive dance and multimedia experience explores love’s labor
When: July 12–13
Where: 1651 18th St. Santa Monica, CA 90404
Price: $15–20
Tags: #dance, #immersive, #interactive, #multimedia, #ContactAdvisory (see below)
Choreographer Koryn Ann Wicks uses dance and interactive multimedia to cast the audience as the object of affection and desire.
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I love you so much, SQUEEZE ME TO DEATH
An immersive, intermedia dance performance
Highways Performance Space | July 12th & 13thLOS ANGELES, May 9th, 2019 — Conceived and choreographed by Koryn
Ann Wicks, I love you so much, SQUEEZE ME TO DEATH is an immersive
dance performance with interactive video and sound installations, exploring
the ways we lose ourselves loving others. Chart your own path through an
ever changing landscape. Engage with live performers. Effect sound and
projection in real time.Audiences will collaborate with dancers and actors in an explorable performance space. They will play the roll the object of affection as our cast surrenders to the desire for external validation. What happens when we surrender our sense of worth to external forms of validation? Help us pull back the veil of self-sufficiency and explore naked, desperate desire.
Audiences will experience contemporary choreography up-close; move with the dancers; and become participants in the piece. Intermedia artists Koryn Ann Wicks, Morgan Embry and Alex Lough have programmed and built unique, one of a kind media systems for this performance. The audience will share in the creation of video and audio accompaniments in real time. A truly immersive experience that invites audiences to explore what it is to submit to co-dependence.
The show includes a pop-up shop where patrons can bid on set pieces via silent auction. Pieces include include handcrafted furniture by set and furniture designer Zachary Titus.
WHERE:
Highways Performance Space
1651 18th St., Santa Monica, CA 90404WHEN:
Friday, July 12th @ 8:30pm
Saturday, July 13th @ 8:30pmKoryn Ann Wicks is a choreographer and intermedia artist. Her immersive choreography integrates dance with interactive video systems to create explorable performances in which live movement and digital media build off one another in real time. Koryn earned her MFA in Dance from the University of California,
Irvine. Her work has been shown at the Orange County Museum of Art, Historic Bowery Poetry Club, Steps on Broadway and the University of Rome Tor Vergata. In addition to her contemporary choreography, Koryn also choreographs for commercial film and television; most recently on the NBC pilot Until The Wedding . Koryn has been on faculty at CalArts, Glendale College and Cypress College.Koryn Ann Wicks is a choreographer and intermedia artist. Her immersive choreography integrates dance with interactive video systems to create explorable performances in which live movement and digital media build off one another in real time. Koryn earned her MFA in Dance from the University of California,
Irvine. Her work has been shown at the Orange County Museum of Art, Historic Bowery Poetry Club, Steps on Broadway and the University of Rome Tor Vergata. In addition to her contemporary choreography, Koryn also choreographs for commercial film and television; most recently on the NBC pilot Until The Wedding . Koryn has been on faculty at CalArts, Glendale College and Cypress College.The creative team is made up of young, local artists on the cutting edge of their fields. Lighting Designer Morgan Embry designs for Duck Lights in LA. She
also freelances with a wide variety of dance, theater and installation companies throughout the U.S., where she incorporates projection and interactive lighting in
her designs. Alex Lough is a Composer, Performer, and Multimedia Sound Artist. His work focuses on implementing experimental technology in order to
discover new performance contexts with particular attention given to the body and the physicality of sound.Danced by Jessie Ryan and Brittany Tran. Jessie worked as a performer and collaborator with Diavolo | Architecture in Motion from 2013–2018. She created the soloist track in L.O.S.T., a two part evening-length work that premiered at the White Bird Festival. Excerpts of her choreography continue to be shown nationally and internationally in Diavolo’s newest version of Voyage. Brittany Tran studied dance at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and later graduated from Alonzo King LINES Ballet. Brittany is currently a freelance dancer and fitness instructor. Special Guest Performer Chris Tyler. Ch ris is a writer, performer
and cultural organizer who moonlights as NAVEL’s Communications & Outreach Manager. His performance style has been called “equal parts hilarious and chilling” (F usion) , “precise-yet-butchered” ( Out Magazine ) and “so cute” (Taylor Swift).This unique experience is not to be missed. Tickets are available via Highways’ website. Student discounts are available. For more information visit www.korynwicks.com/upcoming/
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Contact Level:
Light (Business/Acquaintance) to Moderate (Familial)
Mobility Advisory: The performance is designed for the audience to be active in the space throughout the duration of the performance. Audience members in a wheelchair or walker who wish to move/explore the performance are welcome to do so. There is also limited seating for those unable to stand or walk for long periods.
