WATER STORIES
MorYork Gallery Artists in Residence January - May 2016 Stephanie Zaletel (szalt dance co.) Amabelle Aguiluz (fabric art) Louis Lopez (sound) Clare Graham (space and sculpture)
Multi-media performances and community-centered workshops in textiles, field recording, and movement research coming in March - May 2016!
D O N A T E TO WATER STORIES - Donations through our Fiscal Sponsor (Fractured Atlas)
are VITAL and TAX-DEDUCTIBLE. We will be accepting donations towards Water Stories NOW through May 2016! Thank you for your support!
S T O R Y
A NEW contemporary performance project, Water Stories, brings together (SPACE) Clare Graham, (SOUND) Louis Lopez, (THREAD) Amabelle Aguiluz, and (MOVEMENT) szalt - dance company. The 4 week running performative-installation will act as a thoughtful reflection on the cyclical nature of shared, human-to-water experiences. What have we felt, seen, feared, heard, and remembered in water? What does our human connection to water teach us about our place in the world? If nothing else, we are bonded by the curiosity and mystery of natural cycles and forces. Amabelle, Stephanie, and Louis are utilizing their fields of work to sensitively recount significant water experiences and encounters in an effort to link our shared psychologies. We hope the immersive and stimulating performances in Water Stories will trigger the viewers’ collective stream of consciousness - to invite us to feel connected as a human and animal race. To allow us all to feel part of the same beautiful and mysterious world. Liquid and Land. Bodies and Breath. A series of stop-motion videos, photography, and original soundscapes will be shared throughout our creative process. We will also be offering affordable multi-media workshops to the community during our residency at the MorYork Gallery including lessons in textiles, field recording, and movement research. Your kind DONATIONS will help fund the large-scale conceptual project for the performance dates scheduled in April/May 2016 at The MorYork Gallery in Highland Park,California. Any additional funds raised over our $20,000 goal will allow us to tour the work to museums, galleries, and sites up and down the west coast (and beyond) in 2016/17.
C O L L A B O R A T O R S
About the Fiber Artist: Amabelle Aguiluz is an artist and designer working and living in downtown Los Angeles. She creates wearable art, textile art, sculpture and large-scale installations. Her fiber artworks are presented for public viewing as free form sculptures, but also through live performance, video, and photographs. She studied at Politecnico di Milano, Italy and graduated in 2011 at The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York (BFA Knitwear Specialization). In 2012, she started a sustainable knitwear collection of handmade clothing, accessories and objects. Her work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times Home/Fashion, Fault Magazine, Zink Magazine, WWD, and Elle Magazine online. Aguiluz’s installation work has been exhibited nationally in group exhibitions including The Module Show, Los Angeles, CA , The MMXI Project at the Tribeca Grand in New York, NY, The Textile Show at the Art Factory in Patterson, NJ, and Interface: Art, Fashion, and Anti-Fashion Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, CA. For more information please visit: amabelleaguiluz.com
About the Composer: Louis Lopez is a trumpet player, performer/composer, improviser, and educator. His music making centers around the integration of acoustic and processed sounds in live performance through the signal processing language of Max/MSP/Jitter. His ensemble Grampus, an interface driven trio based in Los Angeles, released their debut album “ILK ILK” on pfMENTUM records to wide acclaim. Their music, along with Louis’s solo work, has been featured in the work of Stephanie Zaletel’s dance company, szalt. Their collaborations have been performed at the Sharon D. Lund Dance Theater, Live Arts LA, and at the Walt Disney Concert Hall’s REDCAT Theater. Louis obtained his Master’s degree from California Institute of the Arts in Performance/Composition: African American Improvisational Music. There he studied with such notables as Wadada Leo Smith, Mark Trayle, Edward Carroll, Vinny Golia, Robert Wannamaker, Alfred Ladzekpo, Clay Chaplin, Sara Roberts, and John Fumo. Lopez is a founding member of szalt as a core musical collaborator. For more information please visit:louislopezmusic.com
About the Artist and his Space: Clare Graham creates art, recently “Recycled Art” or art made from discarded materials. Groupings of curious pieces often take the form of furniture and many of his sets boast of containing millions if not merely hundreds of thousands of materials. Scrabble tiles, bottle caps, etc. Raised in Ontario, Canada and schooled south of Tinsel Town, Clare currently weaves his magic from a studio in the foothills of Los Angeles, the MorYork Gallery. He’s still a regular contributor in the Entertainment Industry while creating artifacts at an astonishing pace. For more information please visit: claregraham.com
About the Choreographer: Born and bred in Las Vegas, NV, Stephanie Zaletel completed her BFA in Dance Performance/ Choreography at the California Institute of the Arts. Zaletel has performed for locally and internationally renowned choreographers including Barak Marshall, Stephanie Nugent, Colin Connor, and in Danielle Agami’s Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY. She has worked closely with Agami as the company’s stage manager, administrator, and rehearsal director. Zaletel has performed and presented her own creative work at REDCAT, ARC (Pasadena), Highways, Live Arts Los Angeles, The Electric Lodge, ArtShare LA, and the Hammer Museum. She has also performed in the Benicassim Festival in Spain. Zaletel has taught contemporary/modern dance for students of all ages as well as movement classes for children with Down Syndrome. She is on the Pieter Performance Space Council and is the founding artistic director of szalt in Los Angeles. About szalt: szalt is collection of Los Angeles movers, collaborating with musicians and visual artists artistically led by dancer/choreographer, Stephanie Zaletel. szalt has produced a myriad of unique dance works across LA including OE, a multi-directed, highly physical evening length that debuted at Highways Performance Space, and tuesday., a durational, installation-style process-piece for the Hammer Museum’s 2014 Made in LA series (in collaboration with James Kidd and the Pieter Performance Space Council). In 2015 Zaletel premiered FLWRS, an interdisciplinary evening of dance, music, and scenic art at HNYPT LA. Excerpts of FLWRS have been presented at the MorYork Gallery, the Bootleg Theater, REDCAT, and at the JATB Festival in Nevada. szalt was also chosen to perform as Finalists in the 2015 McCallum Choreography Competition in Palm Desert. szalt’s DIY and synergistic approach to performance has been called “charged, tense, and tender… outstanding and totally engaging.” - Jeff Slayton (SeeDance) For more information please visit: stephaniezaletel.com. szalt is fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atals.