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WINTER/SPRING 2022 ON THE BOARDS
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DEAR ART LOVER,
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ON THE BOARDS TEAM
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John Hoedemaker, President
It has been a while since we’ve sent a bro- Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud, Vice President
chure your way—and it is because we are Tom Israel, Treasurer THE PALINDROME LOOP
Zack Hutson, Secretary
now, finally, supremely confident about kick- Davora Lindner, Past President January–May 2022
ing the doors open wide and inviting you in Aseem Agarwala, Jeanie Chunn, Jeffrey Fracé, On the Boards continues to demonstrate its artistic
to experience live art with us. It’s going to be Corey Gutch, Tina LaPadula, Mireya Lewin,
vision for the future of its building as a flexible hub for
Lance Neely, David Taft, Emily Tanner-McLean,
weird. It might take a while for us to get used Kate Murphy, Mary Ann Peters, Spafford contemporary performance that blurs genres, creates
Robbins, Jennifer Hintz Roberts, Jimmy
to each other again. But it will be worth it, we Rogers, Robert Stumberger, Heather Wilde, Bill intimacy between audiences, and fosters connection
promise. This January through May mini-se- Way, Tyler Engle, Tom Israel, John Robinson, within the creative community.
and Norie Sato This winter and spring series of performances contains
ries of performances reflects on our shared
an intimate collection of three linked experiences.
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OFF THE BOARDS ADVISORY BOARD
challenges over the past few seasons, and Carol Bobo, Dorit Ely, Jerry Fulks, William The Palindrome Loop brings together interconnected
celebrates our ability to be together again. Gleason, Karen Guzak, David Holt, Lorna
performances by dance artists Faye Driscoll, Dana
Jordan, Mark Kantor, John Kucher, Marge Levy,
Robert McGinley, Gene McMahon, H. Stewart Michel, and experimental sound artist Pamela Z in a
Parker, Dave Roberts, Carlo Scanduzzi, George white-cube gallery setting in the Merrill Theater, between
Celebrate with us! Subscribe! Attend! Gather! Suyama, Virginia Wyman
We can’t wait to experience art with you once January and May 2022.
STAFF In The Palindrome Loop each of the three featured
again. Betsey Brock, Executive Director
Rachel Cook, Artistic Director artists takes the stage to perform alone using their own
body, sound production, and mundane objects, such as a
See you in the lobby, Nabilah Ahmed, Associate Producer lemon, ice, ropes, and articles of clothing. There are layers
Richard Bresnahan III, Technical Director
Betsey Brock Kyle Brisby, Operations Manager of loops across each of the works in the project, including
Executive Director
Stefanie Fatooh, Patron Relations Specialist pulleys or ropes hung above and around the audience in
Ari Kaufman, Associate Technical Director
Annie Liu, Associate Producer Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Space (January
20–23); vocal sounds are live-sampled, repeated, and
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Berette S Macaulay, Curatorial Fellow
We’re happy to welcome back the public to our theater Pamala Mijatov, Director of Community layered in Pamela Z’s Other Rooms (May 5–7); and physical
spaces. In an effort to keep our community safe and in Engagement
compliance with Washington State’s vaccine mandate, all Yashar Shayan, Director of Digital Strategy acts of circling the audience in Dana Michel’s CUTLASS
visitors must show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination to join
& Innovation SPRING (May 19–21).
Charles Smith, Administrator
The Palindrome Loop is an invitation to experience
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us here at On the Boards.
works that, taken together over the course of five months,
embody the cycle of life. Visit ontheboards.org to read
The following organizations support art and artists at On the Boards with valuable relief funding that
allows us to continue to serve our mission over the past year. E L more about this compelling exhibition-within-the-series,
the artists, and their practices, and what loops them, and
us together.
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Rachel Cook
Artistic Director
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COVER IMAGE: DANA MICHEL: CUTL A SS SPRING (PHOTO BY JOCELYN MICHEL)
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PHOTO BY THOMA S STEENL AND
PHOTO BY MARIA BARANOVA
Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Space is the final Pamela Z’s performance evenings combine live electronic
Faye Driscoll: performance in her celebrated Thank You For Coming Pamela Z: processing, sampled sound, and rear-projected video
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series—which includes Attendance and Play. Driscoll con- to create a spectacular multi-medium event. An early
Thank You For siders theater one of the last secular social spaces, where
the vulnerability and complexity of human interconnec-
Other Rooms innovator of live digital looping techniques, Pamela Z
processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex
Coming: SPACE
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tion is made palpable. Space unfolds within an intimate sonic layers. She uses MAX MSP and Isadora software on a
installation, wired for sound and upheld by pulleys, ropes,
May 5–7 MacBook Pro along with custom MIDI controllers that allow
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and the weight of others, where Driscoll appears alone her to manipulate sound and image with physical gestures.
Jan 20–23 with the audience. Through an alchemy of body, object, Her live works combine experimental extended vocal
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voice, and live sound, she builds a moving requiem for the techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, and
human body and conjures a world that is, like ourselves, sampled concrète sounds. This is Pamela Z’s first perfor-
alive and forever changeable. The trilogy summons the Thursday, May 5, 8pm mance at On the Boards.
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unnamed forces that surge between the artist and the Friday, May 6, 8pm
Thursday, January 20, 8pm viewer in order to create a communal realm where our Saturday, May 6, 8pm Pamela Z is a composer, performer, and media artist whose perfor-
Friday, January 21, 8pm mances range in scale from small concerts in galleries to large-scale
experiences are heightened and questioned.
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multi-media works in theaters and concert halls. She also has a growing
Saturday, January 22, 8pm May 6: Artist conversation following body of installation works using multi-channel sound and video. Pamela Z
Sunday, January 23, 5pm View Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Attendance on OntheBoards.tv. the performance has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan
and has been presented by The Kitchen, NYC; Yerba Buena Center for the
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January 20: Artist conversation Faye Driscoll is a Bessie Award–winning performance maker and “a post- Arts, SF; REDCAT, LA; and MCA Chicago, the Whitney Museum, the
millennial postmodern wild woman” (Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice). Diözesanmuseum, Cologne; and the Krannert Museum, IL.
following the performance Thank You For Coming is the umbrella title for a series of works that
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Driscoll began creating in 2012. Her work has been presented nationally
at the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Walker Art Center, the Institute of
THE PAL Contemporary Art/Boston, MCA/Chicago, and BAM/Brooklyn Academy of
Music, and internationally at La Biennale di Venezia, Festival d’Automne
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International Arts Festival, and the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens.
H E PA LIN March 3–6 600 HIGHWAYMEN:
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& March 10–12 A THOUSAND WAYS
(Part Three): An Assembly
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PHOTO BY JO C ELY N MIC HEL
Dana Michel: Canadian artist Dana Michel last appeared at On the Boards
PHOTO BY MARIA BARANOVA
in 2016 with Yellow Towel. This breakthrough performance
CUTLASS SPRING referenced how, as a child, she draped a yellow towel on
her head to emulate the blond girls at school. Rich Smith
from The Stranger wrote about Yellow Towel, “Michel’s
movement reflects the intensity of this psychological
May 19–22 struggle—everything she does is strained and errat-
ic-seeming, her limbs look like they’re being electrified at Obie Award-winning 600 HIGHWAYMEN present A
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different times.” On the Boards will present her newest THOUSAND WAYS: An Assembly, a timely and intimate
work, CUTLASS SPRING. return to togetherness.
Thursday, May 19, 8pm
Friday, May 20, 8pm « when you’ve spent a lifetime holding back in one area, surely it’s A Thousand Ways (Part Three): An Assembly brings
Saturday, May 21, 8pm holding other areas back. time to unravel the knot that i didn’t completely together an audience of twelve strangers to construct
Sunday, May 22, 5pm realize existed (yes i did). a unique and intimate theatrical event. Using a stack of
why i can’t touch people when i? instructive notecards and a few simple props, this small
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May 20: Artist conversation following the
performance why i get confused when there’s more? group of people collectively recount a timeless story of
why i freeze now ? perseverance—of audacity in the face of uncertainty. This
what are the consequences of all the holding? what other casualties have March 3–6 & 10–12 elucidating experience invites participants to consider
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there been? » Multiple performance times each day; check each other—individually and collectively—and the signifi-
ontheboards.org for complete schedule. cance of their coming together after so much time apart.
— Dana Michel
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A Thousand Ways: An Assembly is the final ex-
This is an invitation. Will you attend?
Dana Michel is a live artist. Her works interact with the expanded fields perience of award-winning 600 HIGHWAYMEN’s
of improvisation, choreography, sculpture, comedy, hip-hop, cinema- triptych of encounters between strangers. Each 600 HIGHWAYMEN (Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone) make live art
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tography, techno, poetry, psychology, dub and social commentary to installment of the series, which has been expe- that, through a variety of radical approaches, illuminates the inherent
create a centrifuge of experience. In 2014, she was awarded the newly rienced by On the Boards, plumbs the essence poignancy of people coming together. In addition to On The Boards, their
created ImPulsTanz Award (Vienna) in recognition for outstanding artistic of performance, bringing people together in the work has been seen at Centre Pompidou (Paris), The Public Theater (NYC),
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accomplishments, and was highlighted among notable female choreog- creation of a moving live experience. The work La Jolla Playhouse (La Jolla), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Museum of
raphers of the year by the New York Times. In 2017, Michel was awarded explores the line between strangeness and Contemporary Art (Chicago), Kimmel Center (Philadelphia), Dublin Theatre
THE PAL the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale. In 2018, kinship, distance and proximity, and how the Festival (Dublin), Onassis Cultural Centre (Greece), Bristol Old Vic (UK),
she became the first ever dance artist in residence at the National Arts most intimate assembly can become profoundly Salzburg Festival (Salzburg), and Theaterspektakel (Switzerland). They are
IN Centre, Canada. In 2019, she was awarded the ANTI Festival International radical. currently Associate Artists of IN SITU, the European platform for artistic
Prize for Live Art (Kuopio, Finland). Based in Montreal, Michel is an artist creation in public space.
supported by Parbleux.
March 24–27 Timothy White Eagle: Feb 10 Kyle Abraham / A.I.M:
The Indigo Room An Untitled Love
ON THE BOARDS Created by Timothy White Eagle and The Violet Triangle Presented in partnership with Seattle Theatre Group at
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PHOTOS BY STE VEN MILLER
PH OTOS BY CARRIE SCHNEIDER
“Beautifully Meditative” — Michael Dale, Broadway World
The Indigo Room is an immersive, part-improvisational,
part-ritualistic new performance and installation work by the
well-known Seattle-based Indigenous artist Timothy White
Eagle and his team of collaborators, Paul Budraitis, HATLO,
John Kendall Wilson, Crystal Cortez, and Lori Goldston. Kyle Abraham is one of the most sought-after choreog-
Audiences will experience a live work that explores the raphers and dancers of our time. The bold creator has
sacred elements of life, death, and grief on a journey to choreographed for New York City Ballet, NYCB dancer
mysterious depths. This new performance and installation Wendy Whalen, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and
work are by nature process-based, iterative, and generative. more. Abraham’s newest evening-length work, An Untitled
TWE and his collaborators use their COVID-era research as Love features a soundtrack from R&B legend D’Angelo.
a series of development experiments both online and live This creative exaltation is a thumping mixtape celebrating
to adapt The Indigo Room to each specific time and place
Thursday, March 24, 7 pm culture, family, and community. Recalling his own “love
it is performed. On the Boards’ building will be filled with Tickets are only included with full series
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Saturday, March 26, 7 pm through Seattle Theatre Group. soul genre, Abraham pays tribute to unity and love in all
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Creators: Timothy White Eagle, Paul Budraitis,
The mission of A.I.M by Kyle Abraham is to create a body of dance-based
HATLO, and John Kendall Wilson White Eagle is a mixed-race, undocumented, urbanized Indigenous
work that is galvanized by Black culture and history. The work, informed
Sound artists: Crystal Cortez and Lori Goldston American artist and storyteller who was raised by adoptive white parents
by and made in conjunction with artists across a range of disciplines,
in working class Montesano, Washington. His art practice rises from a
entwines a sensual and provocative vocabulary with a strong emphasis
Development funding by: Western Artist decades-long exploration of traditional ritual and embodiment practice.
on music, text, video, and visual art. While grounded in choreographer
Alliance/Advancing Indigenous Performance He crafts experiences and objects designed to heal both creator and
Kyle Abraham’s artistic vision, A.I.M draws inspiration from a multitude of
and 4Culture Project Grant audience. He was the recipient of the WAA/AIP Launch Pad award in
sources and movement styles.
2019 as well as a Seattle City Artist award in 2020. Timothy toured as an
artistic director and performer with MacArthur Genius, Taylor Mac on his
Pulitzer Prize finalist “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music”.
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Faye Driscoll
Feb 10 Presented in partnership
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Kyle Abraham / A.I.M
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600 HIGHWAYMEN
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Timothy White Eagle
May 5–7
Pamela Z
May 19–22
Dana Michel
The Behnke Center for Contemporary Performance
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