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Tonight is the last chance to catch Manifold Motion's Miscellenea II program, presented at the Canoe Social Club in the International District. To sum up: Manifold Motion is a company - helmed by Artistic Director Keely Isaak Meehan - that produces work by collaborating interdisciplinary artists. The Miscellanea programs are an extension of Manifold Motion's normal productions, an opportunity for Manifold to further support their collaborators by giving them additional exposure and a platform to present new work.
The whole thing is a recipe for success. Let's look at how everything fits together. Canoe Social Club is a membership driven artists' club, established in January 2009. The club provides a social gathering spot for artists as well as an space to exhibit, rehearse and perform work. So in turn, with support from Canoe Social Club (Meehan is a member) and direction from Manifold, Miscellanea II's lead artists are provided assistance with production, marketing, a space to rehearse and a stipend for their efforts. And as Meehan has collaborated with these artists before, trusts and respects them, they are granted much artistic license, with the main limitation being that each Miscellanea program piece must clock in at less than ten minutes.
This backstory is important because it shows how all these elements combine to make it possible for the community to see what its performance artists have to offer, and indeed, Miscellenea is really an avenue for sharing. Without going into too much detail about each piece in the program, it can generally be said that this really is a group of young, talented performers - some happen to be professionals, others not - and that Meehan has assembled an eclectic program of imaginative proportions.
Highlights include Bridget Gunning on the aerial silks, accompanied by bassist Evan Flory-Barnes, a powerful poem written and read by Linden Ontjes, the beautifully played harp+vocal solo by Monica Schley and pre-recorded video work overlaid with Memmi Ochi's live marimba solo. Not to exclude every other performer, truly, but the important thing to establish is that the entire program is an excellent presentation of alternate art forms, or a welding together of independent disciplines to make pieces that are new and different and interesting.
The great thing about Miscellenea is that, unlike programs like On The Boards 12 Minutes Max, it brings together independent artists to work together as a group; the program is presented as a whole instead of isolated segments of individual expression. You can somehow sense this throughout, but its cemented with the final piece of the program, an ensemble jazzercise with silly choreography and gold and black spandex outfits, an artistic way of telling the audience: we enjoyed putting this all together for you, and we hope you had fun.
tonight, 7 p.m. // Canoe Social Club, 409 7th Avenue South // $15-30
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