StoneDance created Wander/Wonder for the Price Sculpture Forest, where dancers became human embodiments, or at least interpreters, of individual art installations.
The one-afternoon-only event, featuring some of the Seattle area’s top dancers, performed August 19.
For the second year, StoneDance, the company of veteran dance-maker Eva Stone, unleashed a cohort of dancers on the Price Sculpture Forest. A vast-but-unassuming outdoor museum threaded throughout a wooded area in Coupeville, midway up Whidbey Island, the forest trails lead visitors on a circuitous route of art that often blends into its surroundings. For one afternoon, those pieces came to life in a unique way, as acclaimed dancers embodied them with fresh choreography and sound in short bursts.
Wander/Wonder‘s dancer-choreographers included some from Stone’s recent cohort in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Next Step, itself a showcase of fresh and daring choreography by PNB’s company dancers, plus other accomplished Seattle-area dancers. Read NWT’s preview here.
Performers and visual artists: Dancer Lorraine Constantine with You Too Can Be a Sculpture (DIY); Carol Davis with The Foundation of Animalia and Fungi (David D’Ostilio); Kyrin Grey with Cosmic Sail (Bill Wentworth); Zsilas Michael Hughes with Pentillium (Gary Gunderson); Julia Y. James with Points of Departure Act II (Boyang Yu); Kaelyn Lefferts with Tyrannosaurus Rex (Joe Treat); Una Ludviksen with Wind Shear (Jeff Kahn); Audrey Rachelle with Golden Pegasus (Elizabeth Berrien); James Kirby Rogers with Gorilla (Joe Treat); Mary Sigward with All Things Equal (Jennifer Kapnek); and dancer Leah Terada and musician Talia Toni Marcus with Sunrise / Sunset (Ivan Neaigus).
Below are selected photos from the performances.
Photos by Chase D. Anderson for NWTheatre, except where noted.
Leah Terada (dancer) and Talia Toni Marcus (musician), with art by Ivan Neaigus.
Kyrin Grey dances with art by Bill Wentworth (‘Cosmic Sail ‘).
Lorraine Constantine dances with a slab called ‘You Too Can Be a Sculpture’.
Trees tower over art by Jeff Kahn (‘Wind Shear’) in the Price Sculpture Forest.
Mary Sigward dances with art by Jennifer Kapnek (‘All Things Equal’).
Una Ludviksen dances with art by Jeff Kahn (‘Wind Shear’).
Carol Davis dances with art by David D’Ostilio (‘The Foundation of Animalia and Fungi’).
Carol Davis dances with art by David D’Ostilio (‘The Foundation of Animalia and Fungi’).
James Kirby Rogers dances with art by Joe Treat (‘Gorilla’).
Julia Y. James dances with art by Boyang Yu (‘Points of Departure Act II’).
Julia Y. James dances with art by Boyang Yu (‘Points of Departure Act II’).
James Kirby Rogers dances with art by Joe Treat (‘Gorilla’).
Mary Sigward dances with art by Jennifer Kapnek (‘All Things Equal’).
James Kirby Rogers dances with art by Joe Treat (‘Gorilla’).
Kaelyn Lefferts dances with art by Joe Treat (‘Tyrannosaurus Rex’).
Zsilas Michael Hughes dances with art by Gary Gunderson (‘Pentillium’).
James Kirby Rogers dances with art by Joe Treat (‘Gorilla’).
Una Ludviksen dances with art by Jeff Kahn (‘Wind Shear’).
Kyrin Grey dances with art by Bill Wentworth (‘Cosmic Sail ‘).
Leah Terada dances with art by Ivan Neaigus (‘Sunrise/Sunset’).
Zsilas Michael Hughes dances with art by Gary Gunderson (‘Pentillium’).
Audrey Rachelle dances with art by Elizabeth Berrien (‘Golden Pegasus’). Photo by Scott Price.
Kyrin Grey dances with art by Bill Wentworth (‘Cosmic Sail ‘).
Zsilas Michael Hughes dances with art by Gary Gunderson (‘Pentillium’).
Lorraine Constantine dances with a slab called ‘You Too Can Be a Sculpture’.
Lorraine Constantine dances with a slab called ‘You Too Can Be a Sculpture’.
Audrey Rachelle dances in Wander/Wonder. Photo by Terrel Lefferts.
Lorraine Constantine dances with a slab called ‘You Too Can Be a Sculpture’.
Leah Terada dances with art by Ivan Neaigus (‘Sunrise/Sunset’).
Leah Terada dances with art by Ivan Neaigus (‘Sunrise/Sunset’).
Una Ludviksen dances with art by Jeff Kahn (‘Wind Shear’).
Zsilas Michael Hughes dances with art by Gary Gunderson (‘Pentillium’).
Leah Terada (dancer) and Talia Toni Marcus (musician), with art by Ivan Neaigus.
Carol Davis dances with art by David D’Ostilio (‘The Foundation of Animalia and Fungi’).
Julia Y. James dances with art by Boyang Yu (‘Points of Departure Act II’).
Mary Sigward dances with art by Jennifer Kapnek (‘All Things Equal’).
Kaelyn Lefferts dances with art by Joe Treat (‘Tyrannosaurus Rex’).
Leah Terada dances with art by Ivan Neaigus (‘Sunrise/Sunset’).
Audrey Rachelle dances in Wander/Wonder. Photo by Terrel Lefferts.
Kyrin Grey dances with art by Bill Wentworth (‘Cosmic Sail ‘).
Kaelyn Lefferts dances with art by Joe Treat (‘Tyrannosaurus Rex’).
Zsilas Michael Hughes dances with art by Gary Gunderson (‘Pentillium’).
Take a tour of Price Sculpture Forest installations online here. Admission is free; open morning to sunset.
Learn more about StoneDance here.
Wander/Wonder from StoneDance performed from 1-3pm on 8/19 at Price Sculpture Forest in Coupeville on Whidbey Island. Admission by donation. Event info here.
Chase D. Anderson is Editor & Producer of NWTheatre.org.
