12MM Coming Up at On the Boards

We've been remiss in mentioning a great performance event which happens like clockwork over at On the Boards. Twelve Minutes Max (12MM): A Performance Exhibition is a chance for a handful of artists to present new material in dance, music, theater and multimedia performance in front of an audience. Curated by different members of the arts community, 12MM performances happen seven times a year.

The third 12MM of OtB's 2010-2011 season is coming up - this Sunday and Monday, in fact. Curated by Manuel R. Cawaling (Executive Director for Youth Theater NW) and Vivian Phillips (director and project manager, Hansberry Project), the lineup features the following:

As two men sit at an office table, their universe becomes skewed as music, sound and text begin to dictate the men’s ability to move. This is the catalyst of a new movement and music collaboration, Davis + LeClaire + Littlefield, consisting of long time Seattle dance artist, Scott Davis, dancer Zach LeClaire and drummer/musician Ed Littlefield. (Dance | Music)
Humor, doubt, wonder and 70 years of love are delivered as legacy and lesson by Dori Gillam, who makes her theater debut with a tender and poignant solo performance (Theater)
Working with evolution, darkness and transformation, performer Miranda Chisholm-Sims delivers a solo dance Above the Horizon choreographed by Alia Swersky. (Dance)
Kate Wallich returns to 12MM with a new dance trio that delves into the place where the mind takes control of the body and repetition conveys a sense of consistency to be interrupted abruptly. (Dance)
Marlo Martin / THREAD brings us a new dance quintet deriving from the personal story of one women’s acceptance of identity as she struggles with the roaring inner voice of freedom, adventure and spontaneity. (Dance)
The Ukrainian Dentist’s Daughter is a new solo show written and performed by Yana Kesala inspired by immigration, identity and place; shaped by her parents and her own struggles and choices of where one calls home. (Theater)
Josephine’s Echopraxia will perform two short works, the first as a lobby installation where the performer is bound with bandages and stripped of vision, hearing and speech. The second is a taut yet violent solo dance on the stage affected by the newly impaired senses. (Dance)
12MM welcomes the return of Seattle’s tribe of grotesques, UMO Ensemble, as they collaborate with industrial/noise musician Andre Sanabria in an adaptation of an episode from Les Chants Maldoror, by Isidore Ducasse. (Physical Theater)