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Base Residency Entry Point: Hannah Rice + Alia Swersky

  • Base 6520 5th Ave S Seattle, WA 98108 USA (map)

Please join us at Base on Saturday, June 14 for a work-in-progress showing for Hannah Rice + Alia Swersky.

For this residency, Alia and Hannah will use the Base Residency as a beginning again and a beginning to end. We will be cycling through and researching  our past works to discover what  remains in the body on the other side of massive physical change and disconnection. Then while committing to the unfolding present, we will see what emerges from states of deep listening. A synthesis will occur that will be presented in an evening length work  that shares our history as collaborators, teacher/mentor, artists, and friends.

BEING

This single moment is the embodied state of

         nothing & everything simultaneously

Be in the sensation of a movement, as opposed to making the idea of a movement

Enter into stillness

         so you can be moved to move

Pause

Listen

Observe the movement within the stillness

Be with the vast diverse wisdom below the surface

Your being

         Is not you doing

Enter Dawn

The Sun Shines Here

 

BEAUTY

Notice where you are

Activate the environment

         Inner in to outer terrain

The outside becomes the inside is the undercurrent of perceptions

Each gesture is a motion into a space, a history, a landscape of stories, stolen lands

The body, beyond the body

         More than a body

Poetics of space

Visual beauty and embodied beauty insofar as it paradoxically destroys and amplifies false ideas of beauty

Embrace endurance, embrace duration as acts of resistance, resilience, release

And raw rough fuck you beauty

Enter Twilight

An Ocean of Gay

 

BECOMING

Stillness

         Still here

Vanishing ideals

A crumbling of realizations & revelations

Begin again…and again…and again

To be seen, really seen, seeing

Eyes closed

Enter Dusk

Unravel Night


Base Residency Entry Point: Hannah Rice + Alia Swersky
Saturday, June 21
Tickets Coming Soon

Space is limited– please reserve a ticket in advance. Masks are encouraged, but not required at Base.


[ Alia Swersky and Hannah Rice in primary colors sitting on chairs looking down. High heeled shoes in foreground].]