Strategy Royale

A collaborative work With choreographer Mari Meade 
Curated by Norte Maar: Julia Gleich and Jason Andrew for CounterPointe 8 Series
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With swirling multicolored, patterned textile panels, dancers create dramatic, comic cliques of shifting allegiances. Caucusing, strategizing, cajoling, each dancer vies for power. The repetition, rhythm, and character development of the choreography mirrors the pulsating, electronic music: an Italian hyper-baroque industrial soundtrack, dark and weird, while simultaneously bright, poppy and mischievous.
Silkscreened and stamped patterns on harlequin print rayon, silver brocade, sari fabric, and magenta Thai silk panels mask and reveal the dancers.  Referencing political banners, royal capes, and nomadic tents, the textile panels embody specific regal colors and aspects of heraldic flags including fringes, and pointed or swallow-tailed shapes. The scale of the panels: 1.10 meters or 43” square, adheres to the ordained banner size for the rank of Earl in Scotland. The ballet premiered on February 28th at the Mark O'Donnell Theatre in Brooklyn. 

DANCERS: Allison Belor, ALi Block, Bethany Kellner, Olivia Miranda

MUSIC: “24” by Not Waving, used with permission from Alessio Natalizia

VIDEO: by: Steven Speliotis and Reiko Yanagi, Speliotis Video

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