Frame at Artopia

BQdanza is performing Frame at Artopia Georgetown!!!

What: Frame – a Site Specific dance

Who: BQDanza/Carla Barragan

(as part of ARTOPIA Georgetown

www.artopiaseattle.com )

When: Saturday, June 28th - 3:00pm and 7:30pm

Where: The Brew House in Georgetown,

5900 block of Airport Way S. and S. Nebraska Street.

Tickets: Free

BQdanza re-invents its own movement style with each collaborative process or site it adapts to. Frame, a site-specific work developed by BQdanza members at the Old Brewery House in Georgetown, depicts movement stories performed in alcoves, hanging from bungee cords, and other elevated spaces that can be viewed from different angles. Carla Barragan, the choreographer, is an Ecuadorian-born artist who presents work through BQdanza in North and South America since 1990.

Georgetown's Artopia is a collaborative grassroots celebration of emerging and established artists and communities. This annual celebration, presented by the Seattle Weekly, takes place in Seattle's historic Georgetown neighborhood.

Frame, a collective creation by BQdance members and choreographer Carla Barragan, is a site-specific work developed at the Old Brewery House in Georgetown. Frame depicts movement stories that can be viewed from different angles. The audience is intended to walk freely through the space experiencing the work in a number of frames, in other words, perspectives. Some of the gesture work performed in the alcoves illustrates the vast amount of goods and comfort that exist in our society, which in the end, prove to be more harmful than helpful. Dancers create their own movement perspectives on an array of items, e.g., nuclear weapons, cosmetics, plastic bottles, insurance, tax rebates, online relationships, etc. On the other hand, other sections offer to the viewer the kind of beauty that emerges in a site without commodities where dancers can adapt and exploit the surfaces of the ruins of a building where normal human comfort no longer exist.

BQdanza (www.bqdanza.com) is a contemporary dance company that is presently based in Tacoma, presenting work also in Seattle, as well as Ecuador and Mexico. BQdanza, directed by Ecuadorian-born Carla Barragan, collaborates with artists of different media and cultures to continuously reinvent the company’s own aesthetic language. “BQ” is an abbreviation of Birlibirloque, the previous company name, an old Spanish word referring to the charm or spell which make things appear or disappear, as is the ephemeral and enchanting nature of dance. Members include Hendri Walujo, Sruti Desai, Katy Sullivan; and guest members, Katie Stricker, Stephanie Krieger.

Carla Barragan is a choreographer and educator presenting choreography in festivals, concerts, and site-specific events in North and South America since 1990. The Tacoma Arts Commission recently granted Carla an award to present, LOUD OMISSION. In the past, her work has been commissioned by the Seattle International Children’s Festival, the National Dance Company in Ecuador and UDLA Danza in Puebla, Mexico, amongst others. Grants received include Four Culture, CityArtists, Arts International, Seattle Arts Commission, King County Arts Commission, Puebla’s “Subsecretaria de Cultura”, The Field, NY, The Parrot Foundation, N.Y.

“Carla Barragan’s choreography is a subversive mix of rigorous modern dance and delicate physical allusion. (SANDRA KURTZ performance picks Seattle Weekly, 2004)

Thanks to the Seattle Weekly, The Sabey Corporation for use of the Brew House, and to 4Culture.