weeble/WOBBLE
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weeble/WOBBLE
We stand here. Now. Teetering on the edge. We embrace the balance and control. We submit to the imbalance - flowing between realities. Strung across the ocean, our collaboration connects and grounds us in a world hanging by a thread between growth and preservation as an individual and community. These stones unite us across the boundaries of geography or man. Each stone represents the individuals in our greater communities - each one adds weight, value, and compromises the balance of the existing structure. To survive and thrive we must be malleable to each element, even one as small as a single pebble, a single person or experience.
An ongoing multidisciplinary collaborative work continually in-progress, conceptualized by Charlotte Smith.
COLLABORATORS:
Sculptor: PJ Doss
Composer: Zac Greenberg and Sam Katz
Cinematographer: Joseph Cicio
Still Photographer: Angeline Herron
Editor: Charlotte Katherine
Colorist: Jose Hernandez
National Premiere: The Luckman Presents Los Angeles Dance Festival I December 2021.
International Premiere: Seoul International Dance Festival in TANK - Music, Digital, and Dance Collaboration project.
We stand here. Now. Teetering on the edge. We embrace the balance and control. We submit to the imbalance - flowing between realities. Strung across the ocean, our collaboration connects and grounds us in a world hanging by a thread between growth and preservation as an individual and community. These stones unite us across the boundaries of geography or man. Each stone represents the individuals in our greater communities - each one adds weight, value, and compromises the balance of the existing structure. To survive and thrive we must be malleable to each element, even one as small as a single pebble, a single person or experience.
An ongoing multidisciplinary collaborative work continually in-progress, conceptualized by Charlotte Smith.
COLLABORATORS:
Sculptor: PJ Doss
Composer: Zac Greenberg and Sam Katz
Cinematographer: Joseph Cicio
Still Photographer: Angeline Herron
Editor: Charlotte Katherine
Colorist: Jose Hernandez
National Premiere: The Luckman Presents Los Angeles Dance Festival I December 2021.
International Premiere: Seoul International Dance Festival in TANK - Music, Digital, and Dance Collaboration project.
"WEEBLE WOBBLE invites the viewer to think as well as to enjoy what she is doing. In this work, Smith has placed herself in the desert surrounded by beautiful cacti and utilizes three different sized bobbling objects that respond to her movements like the toy punching bags kids once played with. Two look like space age capsules – one large, the other small – and the third is shaped like a large musical gourd with an antenna. They make one smile, but the film is intriguingly hypnotic. Smith’s movements and the camera work mirror the wobbling of her “props” and I found myself asking why these objects and why in the desert. Answer: why not? Weeble Wobble is visually beautiful and seeing Smith move within that environment is a treat."
-Jeff Slayton for LA Dance Chronicle | December 8th, 2021
Read the full article here: https://www.ladancechronicle.com/los-angeles-dance-festival-international-2021-concludes-with-a-powerful-program-c/
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STRELITZIA
An individual human feels small, stark, and vulnerable. As individuals we can only grow so much, to grow we explore and connect. This process of adaptation begins with our environment, challenges ourselves through experiences, and then blossoms in community. We bring it in, to let it overwhelm us. Through this process we redefine our capacity and flourish - our brightest, most complete being. Our connection to our community, humanity, diversity makes our colors radiate with a vibrancy. We find comfort in its entirety.
It’s in our lungs, our breath. Humanity stands beside us and within us. We see it, we share it, we become it.
This film is a product of Charlotte's participation in SHIFT/west Residency for Women Choreographers.
Choreographer: Charlotte Smith and Dora Novak in collaboration with dancers
Dancers: Moi Josue Michel, Amanda MacLeod, Lorenzo Edwards, Dora Novak, Charlotte Smith
Cinematographer: Benjamin Tedesco
Still Photography: Don Hannah
Costume Design and Construction: Dora Novak
Composer: Zac Greenberg and Scotty Howard.
Assistant Audio Engineer/Foley: Kramer Sanguinetti
Editor: Charlotte Smith, Dora Novak and Benjamin Tedesco
Colorist: Jose Hernandez
Assistant Costume Design: Cody Brunelle Potter
Make-up Design: Moi Josue Michel
Film Makers: Charlotte Smith and Dora Novak
National Premiere: SHIFT/west Residency for Women Choreographers | June 2021
International Premiere: Seoul International Dance Festival in TANK | July 2021
An individual human feels small, stark, and vulnerable. As individuals we can only grow so much, to grow we explore and connect. This process of adaptation begins with our environment, challenges ourselves through experiences, and then blossoms in community. We bring it in, to let it overwhelm us. Through this process we redefine our capacity and flourish - our brightest, most complete being. Our connection to our community, humanity, diversity makes our colors radiate with a vibrancy. We find comfort in its entirety.
It’s in our lungs, our breath. Humanity stands beside us and within us. We see it, we share it, we become it.
This film is a product of Charlotte's participation in SHIFT/west Residency for Women Choreographers.
Choreographer: Charlotte Smith and Dora Novak in collaboration with dancers
Dancers: Moi Josue Michel, Amanda MacLeod, Lorenzo Edwards, Dora Novak, Charlotte Smith
Cinematographer: Benjamin Tedesco
Still Photography: Don Hannah
Costume Design and Construction: Dora Novak
Composer: Zac Greenberg and Scotty Howard.
Assistant Audio Engineer/Foley: Kramer Sanguinetti
Editor: Charlotte Smith, Dora Novak and Benjamin Tedesco
Colorist: Jose Hernandez
Assistant Costume Design: Cody Brunelle Potter
Make-up Design: Moi Josue Michel
Film Makers: Charlotte Smith and Dora Novak
National Premiere: SHIFT/west Residency for Women Choreographers | June 2021
International Premiere: Seoul International Dance Festival in TANK | July 2021
"At the start of the piece the camera pans up past the parched earth and resting nude bodies. Then without warning the location changes to a lakeside marked with leafless trees hiding from view parts of the dancers lithe bodies. The use of chairs, sofas and makeshift construction are resting places for the languorous and very human Birds of Paradise. A young woman in red toile, blue eye shadowed men, soon the costumes begin to get more creative and outrageous. White soundscapes, ruffles, animal-like movements and preening bodies in highly hued plumage covers the dancers faces as they work. It’s this disorder, spangles, netting that puts color on the parched earth. The white soundscape becomes a chanting that instigates the birdlike creatures to fall in line and fade into the night. This is not dance per se, but takes dancers to do the movement, yet it is a feast for the eyes."
-Joanne DiVito for LA Dance Chronicle | June 8, 2021
Checkout the full review here: www.ladancechronicle.com/brockus-shift-west-residency-helps-women-choreographers-bloom-after-pandemic/
PYRISCENCE
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Pyriscence is described an adaptation to an environment in which fires are regular, and in which post-fire environments offer the best germination and seedling survival rates. This film aims to capture our quiet and harmonious regrowth from the loss and suffering of this year. The elements of music, dance and cinematography hold equal importance in this art film.
Cinematographer: Joseph Cicio
Performers: Zac Greenberg and Charlotte Smith
Director and Still Photographer: Angeline Herron
Editor: Scott Kelley
Colorist: Jose Hernandez
National Premiere: October 2020 for The Luckman Presents Los Angeles Dance Festival.
Awarded: Director's Pick-of-the-Festival.
Official Selection of the Inaugural Cornish College of the Arts Screendance Festival.
Cinematographer: Joseph Cicio
Performers: Zac Greenberg and Charlotte Smith
Director and Still Photographer: Angeline Herron
Editor: Scott Kelley
Colorist: Jose Hernandez
National Premiere: October 2020 for The Luckman Presents Los Angeles Dance Festival.
Awarded: Director's Pick-of-the-Festival.
Official Selection of the Inaugural Cornish College of the Arts Screendance Festival.
"Smith speaks about how many of us feel as if the entire world is on fire, driving us inside, and leaving us to look inward for a path to renewal.
Smith chose a burned-out landscape to film Pyriscence, dressed in a long white dress, signaling purification, with Greenberg wearing a floral patterned sarong style skirt, a nod to rejuvenation. Smith’s movement is primarily slow pace, restive, reflective and loving. Throughout this beautiful film she ponders the situation around her, longs for what has been lost and how to move forward."
-Jeff Slayton for LA Dance Chronicle | Oct 20, 2020
Check out the full review here: https://www.ladancechronicle.com/week-three-of-la-dance-festival-2020-best-thus-far/
SIXTH SENSE
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Created as part of the Digital, Dance, and Music Collaboration Workshop as part of the Seoul International Dance Festival in TANK.
-International Premiere July 2020 in collaboration with Korean choreographer, Jeong Mi Young, and NYC composer, Zac Greenberg.
Director/Editor: Scott Kelley
Colorist: Jose Hernandez
National Premiere July 31st, 2020 at LA Dance Festival presented by the Luckman Fine Arts Complex.
-International Premiere July 2020 in collaboration with Korean choreographer, Jeong Mi Young, and NYC composer, Zac Greenberg.
Director/Editor: Scott Kelley
Colorist: Jose Hernandez
National Premiere July 31st, 2020 at LA Dance Festival presented by the Luckman Fine Arts Complex.
"Though her movements are simple, the rocking is enhanced by quick panning shots, which distort the direction of her body, often making it appear as though she is falling off of the hill. The disorientation knocks the viewer for a loop, intentionally disrupting and upending the choreography, similarly to Sauma’s Coalesce. Sixth Sense however more solidly reflects an altered state of mind and a dizzying sense of self."
-Lara J. Altunian for LA Dance Chronicle. Aug 6, 2020
Read the full review here: https://www.ladancechronicle.com/the-virtual-la-dance-festival-showcases-quarantines-most-necessary-skill-adaptability/
A dance film commissioned by Los Angeles Dance Festival, Dance Camera West, and the LA Department of Cultural Affairs
for the LA virtual dance film festival: Dance From LA, Off the Stage and Onto the Screen.
Director/Editor/DP: Glyn Gray
Performers: Charlotte Smith and Zac Greenberg
Set Design: Charlotte Smith
Sound: Zac Greenberg
National Premiere: June 23, 2020
for the LA virtual dance film festival: Dance From LA, Off the Stage and Onto the Screen.
Director/Editor/DP: Glyn Gray
Performers: Charlotte Smith and Zac Greenberg
Set Design: Charlotte Smith
Sound: Zac Greenberg
National Premiere: June 23, 2020
"Delicate spins paired with Zac Greenberg’s deep bass melodies invoke a calm ambience, occasionally disrupted by slightly erratic movements embodying moments of realization within an ongoing thought process. As the music’s pace quickens, so does her waltz, which transitions into pauses full of outstretched arms, hand-staring, and close-ups on the dancer’s face. One of Virtual LADF’s longer pieces, there is a repetitiveness to the routine, which works well, considering the number’s overall message. One final movement features Smith lying on the floor while hugging the instrument that kept her flowing throughout the work, personifying what might be an epiphany or peaceful mental surrender — a satisfying conclusion."
-Lara J. Altunian for LA Dance Chronicle | Aug 6, 2020
Read the full review here: https://www.ladancechronicle.com/the-virtual-la-dance-festival-showcases-quarantines-most-necessary-skill-adaptability/
CAVERNOUS CONSCIOUSNESS
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Damned to an eternity of darkness, every day, the dancer must come to terms with her reality. Cavernous Consciousness explores the resiliency of the mind and body, and our ability to adapt to new surroundings when we've lost everything familiar to us.
Director/DP/Editor: Katherine Grace Murphy
Performer and Choreographer: Charlotte Katherine
Composer: Zac Greenberg: Call of the Corycian Cave
Colorist: Karbis Sarafyan
International Film Premiere: July 2020 at the virtual Seoul International Dance Festival in TANK (Korea)
Director/DP/Editor: Katherine Grace Murphy
Performer and Choreographer: Charlotte Katherine
Composer: Zac Greenberg: Call of the Corycian Cave
Colorist: Karbis Sarafyan
International Film Premiere: July 2020 at the virtual Seoul International Dance Festival in TANK (Korea)
"The latter dance film, Cavernous Consciousness (Charlotte Katherine Dance Company), as its title suggests, depicts one whose fate is trapped in a cave that has to fight through fate physically, is portrayed through various angles. Like life, where you can zoom in on the conditions of human existence through physicality,〈Mind in a Cave〉is a simple subject, using a mirror as a prop and contained variety."
-Kim Chae-Hyun I Editor-in-Chief of Dance Webzine.
Translated from Korean by: Hyosun Choi
Appalachian Trail
Commissioned by Concert NOVA of Cincinnati, OH for their virtual travel music concert, Appalachia.
Premiere: October 14th 2020.
Composer/Performer: Zac Greenberg
Choreographer/Performer: Charlotte Smith
Director: Charlotte Smith
Premiere: October 14th 2020.
Composer/Performer: Zac Greenberg
Choreographer/Performer: Charlotte Smith
Director: Charlotte Smith