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Sat. May 29 9:00pm, Sun. May 30 7:00pm
Amy Seiwert / im\'ij-re with Frieder Weiss (U.S.A. & Germany)
White Noise (World Premiere)
Cowell Theatre, Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
$25 Reserved Seating, $20 in advance. Series Discounts Available.
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Presented by im\'ij-re and SFIAF

The final performance of the 2010 Festival is a landmark collaborative project between im\'ij-re artistic director, choreographer Amy Seiwert and Freider Weiss of Nuremburg the author of EyeCon and Kalypso, video motion sensing programs especially designed for use with dance, music and computer art. White Noise focuses on the human urge to polarize versus unify. The phrase, "I\'m right, you\'re wrong" paints a black and white worldview caught in duality, where ideas are clung to and value systems point out differences rather than connections. Just as all sound can be canceled out with the presence of white noise, a question will arise as to whether the serene state is transcendent or dismissive.

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Amy Seiwert (Choreographer & Artistic Director)

Amy Seiwert, choreographer and Artistic Director of im'ij-re, moved to San Francisco in 1999, the same year she won the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur Choreography Competition in Quebec. After a nineteen year performing career (Smuin Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, LA Chamber Ballet), she is currently Choreographer in Residence at Smuin Ballet. Her work is also in the repertory of Ballet Austin, Sacramento, Colorado, Oklahoma City, Carolina and American Repertory Ballets as well as Robert Moses KIN and Ballet Nouveau Colorado. Named one of "25 to Watch" by Dance Magazine and one of "7by7"'s Hot 20 under 40, she was also awarded the Gerbode Emerging Choreographers Grant in 2006. She has twice been invited to participate in the NY Choreography Institute by Peter Martins, having the opportunity to create on dancers from NYCB.

Frieder Weiss (Interactive Video Design)

Mr. Weiss is an expert in the fields of real-time computing and interactive computer systems in performance art. As co-director of the Palindrome Intermedia Performance Group he developed technologies and concepts for the use of digital systems in dance performance. With Palindrome he developed a number of award-winning performances and installation projects. He is the author of EyeCon and Kalypso, video motion sensing programs especially designed for use with dance, music and computer art. This software is now used by numerous artists around the world. Weiss has also designed miniaturized portable devices to allow the individual muscle contractions of a dancer's body to control other media. One such system makes dancers' heartbeats available to control other media (such as the tempo of the music). He is teaching Media Technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Nürnberg, University of the Arts in Bern and the University centre in Doncaster, UK. In recent years he has cooperated in installation and performance projects with Phase-7 in Berlin, Leine und Roebana in Amsterdam, Helga Pogatschar, Cesc Gelabert in Munich, and Chunky Move in Melbourne.

Marc Morozumi (Visual Design)

Mr. Morozumi began his multi-disciplinary track during his days at the School for Creative and Performing Arts in his hometown, Cincinnati, OH having studied dance, art, vocal music and musical theater. He went on to earn a BFA in 1994 from the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning at the University of Cincinnati while being a member of Cincinnati's Contemporary Dance Theatre. An Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 1996 as well as an "Emerging Choreographer" Resident at the Bates Dance Festival, Mr. Morozumi then moved to San Francisco to work with Joe Goode Performance Group and remained a company member until 2004. He continues to work for Stanlee Gatti Designs, having his first involvement in 1996, as a mural designer and painter as well as a performer and organizer for performance aspects of these elaborate events.

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