Crystal Sepulveda MFA Dance concert
Thursday, May 10, 20126:30–7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 11, 2012
6:30–7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
6:30–7:30 p.m.
Location: Athletics & Dance Building Dance Studio Theatre, ATHD 102
Parking Information
Category: Performance
Description: DEPARTMENT OF DANCE
(En)counter [balance]
Crystal Sepulveda, choreographer and MFA candidate in Experimental Choreography
In collaboration with no.e Parker, electronic musician/composer
An unconventional, interdisciplinary, performance collaboration. Choreography conceived and performed by Crystal Sepúlveda features no.e Parker’s structured improvisational score of referential sounds and external field recordings performed live. SMOOSH, a video project component of (En)counter [balance], is captured and edited by Peter Witrak.
(En)counter [balance], a solo-duet, experiments with diverse relationships between movement and sound. Sepúlveda and Parker simultaneously navigate first impressions, personal space, and being present throughout a journey within a set of simple, ordinary, charcoal-black chairs. Sepúlveda moves from one place to another, through a sonic landscape punctuated by silent interruptions. Her acts of repetition operate as change, as she evokes a sense of waiting, presence as absence and awareness of space - all driven by improvisation in performance. Sepúlveda and Parker invite you to wait a while and experience (En)counter [balance].
BIOGRAPHIES
Crystal Sepúlveda is a choreographer, performance artist and dance educator. She earned a BA in Dance from Florida International University and performed professionally with Miami-based dance companies Karen Peterson and Dancers, and Binti Dance Ensemble. Crystal is a third-year MFA candidate in Experimental Choreography at the University of California, Riverside. She is a three-time fellow of the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts at UC Riverside where she has taught dance and directed performances at local schools. Her choreographic work has been performed at the MilkBar, an artist-curated salon series in East Oakland, and at the UC Riverside Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts as a Culver Arts Research Lab (CARL) artist in residence. She recently premiered her solo version of Dirty Laundry on Sundays at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica. Sepúlveda and Parker will perform excerpts of (En)counter [balance] in New York at the CUNY Graduate Center Department of Music conference on Music and Space April 28, 2012.
no.e Parker is an electronic musician/composer and a new media installation artist who holds a BS from Cornell University in Apparel and Textile Design. She completed a two-year practical study program in the Ethnomusicology Department at the Indonesian National Art Academy - funded in part by a Darmasiswa Grant awarded by the Indonesian government from 2003-2005. In 2007, no.e earned an MFA in Digital Art and New Media from University of California, Santa Cruz, focusing on live non-idiomatic improvisation using video, electronic, and Indonesian gamelan instruments which include tuned bronze gongs, metal-keyed instruments, xylophones and drums. no.e is a second-year PhD student in Digital Music Composition at UC Riverside where she researches audiovisual and spatial audio composition in the Experimental Acoustic Research Studio (EARS), and studies traditional North Indian tabla with Abhiman Kaushal.
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(En)counter [balance] is presented by the University of California, Riverside, Department of Dance. Crystal Sepúlveda created this work in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree in Experimental Choreography.
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No late seating – seating is limited. Doors open at 6:00 pm
Parking: $5 in Lot 1 (No fee with UC permit)
TICKETS: (951) 827-4331
Advance Tickets: available at the University Theatre Fine Arts Ticket Office, Monday-Friday, 10am-3 pm
Walk-Up Tickets: available at the Dance Studio Theatre, ATHD 102, one hour before each performance.
Ticketmaster: (213) 480-3232, (714) 740-2000, www.ticketmaster.com
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Events are subject to change without notice.
No Reserve Seating: Seating in some venues is limited, so arrive early for best seats.
Events begin promptly at the announced curtain time.
Please order carefully. No exchanges or refunds will be made, except in the event a performance is cancelled.
Regardless of age, all patrons must have a ticket. Infants on laps are not permitted.
Open to: General Public
Admission: Entry Charge: $7.00 general admission
Sponsor: Dance Department
Contact Information:
Kathy DeAtley
(951) 827-3245
performingarts@ucr.edu