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Dance Work Pretty Bee And Other Translations Performs This Weekend

Updated: Monday, June 4 2012, 01:28 PM CDT
By Rob Faubion, AustinOnStage.com

The multi-layered performance using movement, vocals, shadow and light - Pretty Bee and Other Translations - will run May 24 through 27 at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre.  The new work serves as an experiment in creating new relationships in collaboration, as well as in breaking the traditional roles of technician, designer and performer.
    
For the staging, two duets will be performed back-to-back, each a translation of the other.  The choreography plays with revealing a journey through ever-changing states of being.   One moment, the performer is singing opera as if alone in the shower, to then suddenly shift and fully embody the presence of a lizard.  The production creative team said they stove to "pare down to an essential simplicity, reveal/perform the moment fully, and somehow trigger the unbounded reflections of the imagination."
    
Heloise Gold is an award-winning artist, dancer, T’ai Chi instructor and co-director of Art From The Streets - a project for homeless artists -, whose career traverses numerous paths, beginning with childhood appearances with the Bolshoi Ballet to performing in Robert Wilson’s legendary 12-hour opera The Life And Times Of Joseph Stalin in 1973.   She participated in many experimental happenings in NYC in the 1970s, toured with The Deborah Hay Dance Company in the 1980s and was a key player in the inventive performance works that were spawned in Austin in the 1980s and 90s.
   
Creating numerous original works spanning 25 years, Gold currently collaborates with performers in Austin, New York and Europe.  Most recently, she danced in a tribute concert for new music pioneer Pauline Oliveros at Columbia University, presented her original works in the Fusebox Festival in 2009 and 2010 and presented her work at The Majlis Arts Festival in Toronto in 2011.
    
Designer, producer and artist Natalie George spends most of her time as the Producing Director of the Fusebox Festival.  As a lighting designer, she has designed Parade, Mid Summer, Cyrano De Bergerac and Peer Gynt while teaching at St. Edward's University. She is the resident lighting designer for the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and Big Range Dance.  Here producing credits include the short film, The Runner, and new plays Spacestation 1985 and Sad Sad Sad.
    
Performances of Pretty Bee and Other Translations will be staged May 24 through 26 at 8 p.m. and May 27 at 2 p.m.  Tickets are $15.
    
The Salvage Vanguard Theater is located at 2803 Manor Road.  For tickets and more information, visit www.BrownPaperTickets.com/event/241861/
 
(Photo by Kenneth B. Gall)
Dance Work Pretty Bee And Other Translations Performs This Weekend