{"id":94165,"date":"2023-04-12T22:17:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T22:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/12\/remembering-bird-seattledances\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T22:17:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T22:17:22","slug":"remembering-bird-seattledances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/12\/remembering-bird-seattledances\/","title":{"rendered":"REMEMBERING BIRD | SeattleDances"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Editors Note:<\/p>\n

Originally from the Portland OR space, Bird was a part of an influential cohort of dancers that graduated from Cornish College of the Arts within the early 2010s. While most of that group finally landed exterior Seattle, together with Bird shifting to Philadelphia in 2018, the work popping out of that period continues to affect the Seattle scene.<\/p>\n

Even as a younger artist, Bird had a whole aesthetic standpoint that was not solely motion, however entire worlds. The work I noticed of theirs left a deep poetic impression on me\u2014of softness giving solution to rawness. Of pastels and feathers and glitter. Of magnificence as a method into darkness and again once more. Those that knew Bird knew that their creativity was not contained to the dance area however infused their life\u2014wherever they went Bird created unusual and marvelous magnificence.<\/p>\n

This article comprises a group of images and reflections submitted by current and former members of the Seattle dance neighborhood that had been collected within the week following Bird\u2019s passing. We want on this time of loss to acknowledge and have a good time their artwork and artistry, however please know that is solely a small glimpse into the work they accomplished of their time in Seattle and certainly not a whole archive.<\/p>\n

For these in a position to contribute there’s a GoFundMe<\/a> to assist with Bird\u2019s afterlife care. Additionally, be looking out for a day of remembrance to be scheduled at Cornish College of the Arts.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBird\u2019s\u00a0Remedies for Aching Bones<\/em>\u00a0kicked off the second act with an eerie and lavish world of sequins, painted horse figurines, knickknacks, and kimono-like robes. Three women lounged in front of a mirrored vanity table, dressed in outlandish getups (think fur and lingerie covered in large pom-poms) and overdone make-up, gold legs, and platinum blonde bobs. Each dancer took her turn at the front of the stage, displaying sultry strength in mesmerizing and creepily unnatural movements, emphasized by Andrew Powell\u2019s sound design. Remedies<\/em> was like\u00a0Mean Girls\u00a0with washed-up alien divas\u2026Bird\u2019s exploration of the feminine seemed to point toward unease with objectification and the feminine capacity for destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Excerpt from \u201cHumor and Horror at Next Fest NW 2014\u201d by Ciara McCormack, SeattleDances<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cI held a great deal of admiration and respect for their spirit and unapologetic performance energy. the world lost a great artist.\u201d -Nikolai Lesnikov<\/p>\n

Above: Photos from Cornish college students\u2019 efficiency in Seattle Center on November 3, 2013. Submitted by Nikolai Lesnikov. Below: Process images submitted by Makenzie Stone.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tDancing with Ashani Dances. 2013. Jazzy Photo.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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\n\t\t\t\tAt the Pink Door. 2012. Jazzy Photo.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n


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Trigger 2012. Jazzy Photo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"\"\u201cBird never knew I had to fight two other dance students to get them in my thesis dance piece at Cornish. I was impressed by their fierce presence when they took up space in the studio as a first year student. I am thankful to have gotten to share so much during this transitioning stage of each others lives. I think during the making of this piece we each grew more comfortable in our identities.\u201d \u2013Carla Negrete Martinez<\/p>\n

Pictured left: Performing in Negrete Martinez\u2019s work.
Below: Rehearsal images from Babette McGeady\u2019s 9andOne. 2012. Submitted by Makenzie Stone.<\/p>\n

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Performing with Pendleton House. 2013. Jazzy Photo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI really feel so grateful to have been a instructor and mentor to Bird whereas they had been at Cornish. This period at Cornish was memorable and filled with gifted younger artists dedicated to bringing their artistic concepts to life.<\/p>\n

Bird was a visionary, making floor breaking work whereas at Cornish after which creating provocative, impactful works as they transitioned into the Seattle dance neighborhood. They pushed boundaries, they labored throughout disciplines creating collaborative relationships with visible, movie, theater, and sound artists.<\/p>\n

Bird was an genuine, brave artist who was dedicated to the transformative prospects of efficiency follow and world constructing. Bird created an evening-length immersive multi-media efficiency for his or her BFA capstone thesis that went past something I\u2019ve seen throughout the a few years on school there. They had been defiant in one of the best of the way, inhabiting an elaborate, expansive imaginative and prescient. Bird discovered their method into a brand new Cornish constructing pre-renovation that started as a tough and ragged area. They reworked that vacant area right into a multi-part set up and efficiency referred to as,\u00a0Effigies of My Own Mortality<\/em>.\u00a0 Walls had been deliberately designed with shade and textual content, dancers had been painted, phrases written and recited, and performers dropped into states of being that had been mesmerizing. The viewers adopted performers by way of the broken-down halls and rooms that had been collaged in textiles of pinks and sequins.<\/p>\n

I weep occupied with it. When artwork has an affect, it issues, it transforms.
Thank you, Bird, in your fierce unapologetic being and making.<\/p>\n

Part of Bird\u2019s senior BFA mission was additionally a solo I made on them referred to as, <\/span>you by no means look me within the <\/span><\/i>eyes<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>I by no means look you within the eyes.<\/span><\/i> I spent many hours within the studio witnessing Bird transfer, freeze, <\/span>resist, battle, notice, change, and proceed to come back into themselves. These sorts of <\/span>collaborations are what enliven me as an artist \u2013 the alternate is deep, intimate, scary, and <\/span>transformative. As a part of this solo, Bird spoke in fast repetition the textual content of the title, \u201cY<\/span>ou never look me in the<\/span> eyes<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>I never look you in the eyes<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0Over the years the intonation of their voice talking it’s one thing I replay in my thoughts typically.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And at this second of grief and loss, Bird\u2019s fierce delicate voice is with me once more.
<\/span>Thank you, Bird, for Staying With.<\/p>\n

Lastly, I can converse to a site-specific piece I made referred to as, Beneath Our\u00a0Own Immensity<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In this work, Bird traversed down a dusty path, rolling, falling, rising, throwing mud clouds of dust into the air. This work continues to the touch me due to the ferocity, abandonment, realness, and vulnerability of working in such a uncooked web site with Bird and this group of dancers. We went rogue, we stepped out of the confines of cut-off dates, dance areas, and institutional tidiness and made work that mattered to all of us.<\/p>\n

Thank you, Bird, for main with such abandon.
Thank you, Bird, for defying all expectations of the \u201cright ways\u201d to make artwork,\u00a0<\/span>and as an alternative getting into being precisely YOU.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

-Alia Swersky<\/p>\n

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Performing in Alice Gosti\u2019s Bodies of Water. 2016. Submitted by Alice Gosti.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"\"\"\"\u201cI remember them as someone whose mind was so quick, so deep, and so intricate. I met them when I was shy and naive and they always spoke their mind into whatever process we were doing. I always admired that, they inspired me to speak up and to stand up. They once made these beautiful aura cards for the cast of Bodies of Water<\/em>. They captured us so well. To this day it is the best gift I have ever received.\u201d \u2013Sabina Moe<\/p>\n

Below: Photos from Alice Gosti and Nikolai Lesnikov<\/p>\n

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Trigger. 2016. Jazzy Photo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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