Show Descriptions

SHADOWS

SHADOWS is a live, movement and image-based performance. Projecting historic photographs, solo artist Mik Kuhlman will insert herself as a shadow within the imagery. Climbing into the Civil Rights Movement, Ms. Kuhlman will explore images that captured one of the most significant social revolutions in America.

The storefront windows of the old Island Variety store on Vashon Island will serve as her stage and audience members will watch from the street. The running time is approximately 30 minutes.

SHADOWS was awarded a 2008 Independent Artist Grant from 4Culture.

SHADOWS is a Partner Artist project of Shunpike, a 501c3 non profit organization that provides business tools for small to mid-sized arts groups, including a tax exemptions for donors to the project. Shawn and Kathy Hoffman are generously donating the use of Island Variety with additional support from Vashon Auto Parts.

SHADOWS artistic team includes: Projections & Technical Director, Scott Garner; Choreographer, Sonia Dawkins; and Composer, Ray F. Allan.

If you would like to help support this project, you may make a tax-deductible donation online through SHADOWS webpage at SHUNPIKE. click here…

http://www.shunpike.org/partner-artist/shadows.php



split second

The collision of events, the fracturing of a second. Four stories, four precise moments in time that change a person…sometimes even the world.

A ten-foot hanging coat, 156 slices of Wonder Bread, 16MM projector, stories and images. Powerful solo theatre. In collaboration with Sally Sykes and Donald Byrd (2006 TONY nomination “The Color Purple”) with short stories by Northwest writers, Raymond Carver and David James Duncan.

“Utterly and beautifully haunting.” –Seattle Times

split second comprises the following pieces:

  • JACKIE — President Kennedy’s assassination through the eyes of his wife: an homage to the Zapruder Film.
  • FAT by Raymond Carver — 156 slices of Wonder Bread, a bowl of butter, his story told verbatim.
  • RED COATS by David James Duncan — A few days before Christmas, downtown Portland, a child’s shopping nightmare.
  • ROSA — The power of “No”. One woman’s journey through shadow and light.