Dawn Kramer
Recent Work
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Body of Water (2011) |
Body of Water explores the delicate relationship between human beings and the sea. The earth's surface is covered with about 71% water, with less than 1% of it available to support all living things. The human body is filled with 55%-78% water. Humans and the sea are deeply connected, yet the negative human impact on our oceans has been vast. "Sometimes humorous, sometimes merely elaborately colored by the moving projections, she turned upside down like a starfish, bobbed along as if pummeled by brilliant moving droplets from a spewing fountain, and was dissolved in the streams pouring ceaselessly from a row of identical faucets. " |
 Photo: Julie Chen |
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Six Silent Video-Movement Pieces (2010) |
Short Single channel videos made in Japan, Italy and the USA |
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Entanglement (2009) |
The choreography looks at the idea of "self" in relation to the body, gender, trans-gender, and aging. (video) |
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Cracking (2008)
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"I was stunned by that incredible solo. |
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Haiku (2008)
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Made on the rocky coast of the Atlantic Ocean on Deer Isle, Maine, Haiku sees the human being as an inseparable part of the environment. It is the first in a series of silent video-movement poems to be made throughout the world. |
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Lament for a Dead Companion | Composer John Holland asked me to interpret the role of Ishtar in his musical version of the Gilgamesh myth. In this physical acting role, my job was to stalk the piano player and seduce him into giving up his seat so that Ishtar could gain control of the piano at the end of the piece. I chose to begin the piece … (more) |
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If I were you..(2007) | This was a commission
by the Boston University dance program. Wishing to reflect on the
Buddhist idea that none of us is completely separate from each other,
I started working with video projections on the bodies of the dancers.
Choosing two very different dancers, by both gender and race, |
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Seán & Dawn (2003) |
This is a short, single channel video, taken from the video material created for Walk in Progress. It juxtaposes Antony Flackett's highly edited, humorous sections with the deadpan scenes of Sean and me walking in many rhythmic and physical variations. It closes with an homage to … (more) |
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Walk in Progress (2001) |
"The highlight of the evening was Walk in Progress (italics)...It's a wonder of media-mixing that explores, both thematically and technically, the distinction between illusion and reality: Curran and Kramer dance alone and together as projections. Kramer, live, teams up with the celluloid Curran. Their steps, literally worlds apart, are so in sync that he can actually bump her away with his derriere and send her flying...But there's more here than meets the eye; there's a story (in fact, two) that meets the heart. Walking - and the inability to walk - becomes a metaphor for risk and change." … (more) |
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