Wobbly Dance is a Portland couple who travel by wheelchair. But that does not stop them from performing contemporary dance. When you think about it, it's the most radical dance happening in Portland. They perform live from time to time and they make dance productions on video. Tidal is their newest. Here is an explanation:
"The new dance film Tidal is a collaboration among Wobbly Dance, cinematographer Ian Lucero, costume designer Jenny Ampersand, and musicians Sweetmeat. It’s “a fantastical film, where breathing masks transform into diving masks, ventilator tubing morphs into costumes, and an ancient diver who calls the ocean home, draws us into his world. We fall, we dream, we dive. We transform from human to jellyfish and everything in between. This film is a continuation of the exploration of Wobbly’s dark, dream-like and sometimes absurd aesthetic. Starring Yulia Arakelyan and Erik Ferguson as the Dreamers, Nathan H.G. as the Diver, and Grant Miller as the Forager.”
The work reminds of the surreal scenes in Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast. Recommended.
You can see it free tonight at New Expressive Works, formerly Zoomtopia 810 SE Belmont. 6:30PM Free
