"Lifelines + Re:Forming" at Center Stage Theater

Lifeline + Re:FormingA live streamed collaborative performance, plus Lifelines film premiere broadcast from Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbaracreated bybrooke smiley, Sam Bourgault, Mark Hirsch & Phillip KobernikLifelines + Re:Forming is a shared evening event on December 4th at 7pm PST. Premiering works by artists brooke smiley, Samuelle Bourgault, Philip Kobernik, and Mark Hirsch, this evening is a culmination of an artist residency at Center Stage Theater from November 30 - December 4th. LifelinesLifelines is a new dance film seeking our body's connection to land, with people whose identities are unique. Choreographed and directed by brooke smiley, a Native Launchpad Artist from Western Arts Alliance from 2020-2023, brooke collaborated with dance artists from around the world from July - October 2020. What you will see is a selection of a larger work, which invites venues to partner with National Parks, historical places of importance, and indigenous communities and is a part of acknowledging a broader history in creating spaces of meaning in where we gather and why. This filmed iteration includes artists from the lands of SKlallam Territory (Sequim, Washington), Brussels, County Clare Ireland, London, Wuppertal, Coastal Chumash (Isla Vista, California), and Xaxaamonga Tongva (Pasadena, California). Originally showcased at this year's Western Arts Alliance and Arts Midwest joint conference in October, this will be the first public premiere of this work.Re:Forming - Agency, Body and Technology A collaborative residency and performance work with Samuelle Bourgault, Philip Kobernik, Mark Hirsch, and brooke smiley. Re:Forming explores the integration of real-time performance and additive digital fabrication through the lens of dance and 3D printing. This work presents a system within which brooke smiley guides the fabrication process of a 3D printer in remembering the traces of her movements through space. In turn, this system fosters a bridge between dance improvisation and a generative method of choreography. Data from a pose tracking algorithm is sent to a novel, rapid 3D printing system, the Liquid-Crystal Printer (LCP), which fabricates material structures based on the dancer's movement, creating lines of memory and re:forming them into a sculpture made in real time with the performance. Due to the constraints of COVID-19, Re:Forming was designed in, and designed for, a remote setting in which the dancer, fabrication system, and audience remain in separate locations, but in which a unifying object is made from each of our locations. This new work has also been used to bring together many dancers from many locations in creating a shared movement memory across time and space into a 3D printed choreographic sculpture. Lighting design by Vickie Scott.To learn more, here is an article from The Current about brooke smiley, and the collaboration.The event will premiere with a livestream on December 4 at 7:00 pm (PST) and the recorded video will then be available for viewing through January 1, 2021. When you purchase a ticket you will receive a confirmation email. Prior to the December 4 premiere you will receive a second email with the link for viewing. If you have any questions please email us at cstheater@sbcoxmail.com or call 805-963-8198. With limited staffing due to COVID restrictions email is the preferred option if possible.December 4, 7:00 pm (pst)Tickets $5 - $50, all students free