PREMIERED AT SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, FIREHOUSE, FORT MASON, SAN FRANCISCO, CA (2019)
ANIMA:
Movement and performance: Amy Lewis and Agnes Szelag
Music: Agnes Szelag
Video design: Agnes Szelag and Omri Glaser
Costumes: Agnes Szelag
RITUS:
Form and direction: Agnes Szelag
Video: Agnes Szelag
Collaborators and performers: Kristina Dutton, Amy Lewis, and Laura Turiano
MAGNETA:
Form and direction: Amy Lewis
Original movement and performance: Nick Brentley and Sonsherée Giles
Music: Agnes Szelag
Costumes: Sonsherée Giles
ABOUT
ANIMA MAGNETA was a triptych influenced by Lewis and Szelag’s 2018 piece ANIMA. ANIMA MAGNETA further explored, through dance and live music, theories in David Abram’s 1996 book The Spell of the Sensuous. Key themes discussed by Abram remained relevant: the transformation of sensory awareness due to our immersion with technology, animism, and our symbol-induced alienation from nature. Choreographer Amy Lewis and sound artist Agnes Szelag interweaved dance, video, and sound to create an experience of a surrogate reality where seemingly disparate ideas and dimensions suddenly coexisted.
REFERENCE
Abram, David. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than Human World. New York: Pantheon Books, 1996.
