SHADOWS ACROSS OUR EYES, APRIL 25TH AND 26TH 7PM; APRIL 27 2PM, SATORI 815 ALMAR AVE. UNIT 9 SC, CA

Start: Friday, April 25, 2025 7:00PM
End: Friday, April 25, 2025 8:30PM

"Thought-provoking . . . mysterious . . . fascinating . . . you couldn't look away, what happened on stage was too authentic-looking and authoritative" Jennifer Dunning, New York Times

Shadows Across Our Eyes is bodies limited and constrained; aggressive and audacious; independent trajectories between movers that intertwine and entangle. Neon lines in tension cut the space, iconic narrative stand offs back away and move into active self-bindings, and outwardly focused mind states morph into inward unknowable personas. Shadows Across Our Eyes presents a series of narrative fragments unblended and open and deriving meaning from what we think we know refusing to consider what we shutter to create a story and a history.

Kranicke's work Shadows Across Our Eyes, performed with Zephyr member Molly Fe Strom, is highly abstract, yet open to myriad images and ideas. Neon lines in tension cut the space, iconic stand-offs back away and move into active self-bindings, outwardly focused mind states morph into inward unknowable personas. The dancers both acknowledge and lose track of each other through a variety of narrative fragments, bodies squatting, lunging, suspended, assessing, confused, and fragile. The work creates an atmosphere of tension as Kranicke and Strom move through the piece balancing their task of executing movement while encumbered and restrained, hands bound and wearing heels. Shadows Across Our Eyes continues Kranicke's interest in aesthetic investigations of the interaction between dance and architecture. Enhancing the choreography is lighting by Richard Norwood and costumes by Amanda Lee Franck.

PRE SHOW PERFORMANCES
ERR SHIRLEY
Err is a recent University of California, Santa Cruz graduate, gaining their degree in Theatre Arts and Western Art Music with an emphasis in Vocal Performance.

DEE KOHANNA DAVIS
Dee is a poet, lyricist, vocalist and voice and writing coach. She won the SuRaa award for short fiction for her story Green Dolphy and her poetry has been published in Porter Gulch Review and the Network. Her lyrics have been recorded by various artists, among them Janis Siegal of Manhattan Transfer.

Price: Suggested Donation: USD 20.00

Artists: Michelle Kranicke, Molly Strom, Err Shirley, Dee Kohanna Davis