Central Heating Lab & Lingo Present A Glimmer of Hope or Skin or Light 4/22-5/15

Serving as the final, culminating event of a three-month performance series launched late February, Lingo dance premieres A Glimmer of Hope or Skin or Light, a dance/theater/cabaret/glam rock musical commissioned and produced by The Central Heating Lab at ACT. Glimmer will be performed April 22-May 15, Thursday-Saturday at 8pm in ACT Theatre's Bullitt Cabaret.

Glimmer is the final performance influenced by its preceding series of one-on-one custom solos performed in public places throughout Seattle (since March) and the company's five-hour live installations at The Seattle Art Museum (since late February). It is the latest in a series of non-proscenium performance/events created by KT Niehoff, Artistic Director of Lingo. The show takes place throughout the Bullitt Cabaret space, and audience members are free to watch the show from various and alternating vantage points, including the dreamy balcony that runs the perimeter.
Glimmer's environment is raucous and wild. (Jabon) Scott Colburn, creator of the original score, calls the show "the most romantic vampire story every told", while others liken it to a glam-rock musical. Along with her core company members, Niehoff has expanded her posse of vibrant performers to include seven contemporary dancers turned "showgirls" and Ivory Smith's local indie band, Ivory in Ice World, (Niehoff guests, singing with Smith on a few songs). Both Niehoff and Smith have borrowed inspiration from Pippin, Cabaret, and Moulin Rouge to create Glimmer's look and sound.

As an additional part of the Glimmer experience, Lingo is offering an opportunity for 12 ticket holders each show to join members of the core cast for pre-show cocktails at a nearby bar. Here's how it works: patrons call ACT once they purchased tickets to Glimmer, and tell the ticket representative that they (and their party, if desired) would like to sign up for a pre-show cocktail (1st come, 1st served). Lingo will contact those who reserved a spot directly as to where to meet. It's a Dutch date-patrons pay for their drink, Lingo pays for theirs. From there, patron and performer will take a Seattle spring stroll over to ACT's Bullitt Cabaret together. Pre-show drinks start at 6:45 p.m.

Lingo performers are core company members Bianca Cabrera, Ricki Mason, Michael Rioux, Kelly Sullivan, and Aaron Swartzman, along with Sruti Desai, Jill Leversee, Morgan Nutt, Erin Simmons, Violette Tucker, Kate Wallich, and Hendri Walou.

Comprehensive information about A Glimmer of Hope or Skin or Light can be found at www.lingodance.com.

About KT Niehoff / Lingo
Named 2007 Dance Artist of the Year by Seattle Magazine, KT Niehoff is a 2001 Seattle Artist Trust Fellow and a 2006 MANCC Choreographic Fellow at Florida State University. She was the co-founder of Velocity Dance Center from 1996-2006 and holds a BFA from New York University.

Lingo is the container for her creative works in all forms - performance, commissions, writing, film, teaching, and research. The company expands and contracts in numbers depending on the demands of the work, yet is centered around a reoccurring cast of characters who have been instrumental in the creation of Lingo's vision.

Since 2006 Niehoff's curiosities have led her off the proscenium stage. Recent projects include her one-on-one urban "dance gift" called The Lift at Seattle's historic Pike Street Market, her party/performance called Inhabit, a social art feast, at the old CHAC space, and her first short film titled Parts Don't Work shot on location at the Fun Forest in the Seattle Center.
Lingo has been presented in Canada, Japan, Ecuador, Germany, and Cuba and nationally at venues including On the Boards (Seattle), The Joyce SoHo (New York), SUSHI (San Diego), and Alverno Presents (Milwaukee), among colleges and theaters throughout the country. The company's artistic integrity has been recognized by The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Dance Project, The National Performance Network, Meet the Composer, Centrum, Artist Trust, Seattle, Washington, and King County Arts Commissions, Arts International, The Bossak/Heilbron Foundation, and The Jack Straw Foundation.

About ACT
Located in the heart of downtown Seattle and serving a population of curious, open-minded, and brave audiences, ACT - A Contemporary Theatre is the only local theatre dedicated to producing contemporary work with promising playwrights and local performing artists since 1965. A theatre of new ideas, ACT serves as a cultural engine that makes plays, dance, music, and film that touch us. Because contemporary life demands examination, ACT is driven to inspire and strengthen our diverse community through works that advance our understanding of human life. ACT is an interactive community where artists and the public witness, contemplate, and engage in dialogue on today's thought-provoking issues, ideas and art, presented with intelligence, insight, and humor.

 

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