Degenerate Art Ensemble work-in-progress Performance at the Art Bank

Degenerate Art Ensemblehas shown their work throughout the US and Europe known for their large scale dance and theater projects, concerts, site-transforming spectacles and ongoing public experimentation.  Recent highlights of the group's work include a major exhibition at theFrye Art Museumin 2011, was commissioned by director Robert Wilson to interpret his workEinstein on the Beachin 2012 and collaborated with the Kronos Quartet in 2013. Also in 2012 Degenerate Art Ensemble was commissioned by the city of Seattle to create a massive site specific workUnderbellyin collaboration withOlson Kundig Architectsto celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World’s Fair.  The group’s most recent workPredator Songstresspremiered at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco in 2015 followed by Seattle and will show in New York in November of 2017.    In December of 2016 DAE teamed up with Czech rock legends Uz Jsme Doma for an epic orchestral work inspired by the group's music and the music of Degenerate Art Ensemble for a concert at the Archa Theatre in Prague with the Philharmonic Orchestra of South Bohemia. Degenerate Art Ensemble and Uz Jsme Doma and will tour 20 cities of Europe in from September 27th until Ocotber 14th 2018. The group's newest workSkeleton Flowerwas shown at theSpotlight USA Festivalin Plovdiv, Bulgaria in March of 2018 and will have its full premiere in the 2018-19 season.

Degenerate Art Ensemble

Film Screening and Performance at The Art Bank

810 3rd Ave

<h1>Screening of short film by Haruko Crow Nishimura and collaborators</h1><h3>with live excerpts of a new performance work-in-progress and installation</h3><p><strong>SATURDAY DECEMBER 10th 6pm </strong></p><p><strong>at The Art Bank, Degenerate Art Ensemble’s new Downtown Studio</strong></p><p><strong>810 3rd Ave, Tickets sliding scale $10-50</strong></p><p></p><h3>Performance and Film Event</h3><ul><li><strong>The event will feature a special new short performance ritual film collaboration between Haruko Nishimura and video artists Leo Mayberry and Ian Lucero, costume designers Willow Fox and Wyly Astley and with music by Joshua Kohl commissioned by the Mayors Office of Arts and Culture.</strong></li><li><strong>The current window installation is a collaboration between costume and installation artist Wyly Astley with a floral mural by Haruko Crow Nishimura.</strong></li><li><strong>Degenerate Art Ensemble will present excerpts from their latest performance work-in-progress Anima Mundi. </strong></li></ul><h3>Film and Ritual Performance Presentation</h3><p><strong>The evening's program will feature a new short film with 4 artists focused on cultural sensibilities, Shinto, and the natural world by performer and director Haruko Nishimura made with collaborating cinematographers Leo Mayberry and Ian Lucero, costumes by Willow Fox and Wyly Astley and score by composer Joshua Kohl. The film was commissioned with the support of the Mayors Office of Arts and Culture’s City Artist Program.</strong></p><h3>The Space</h3><p><strong>The space was provided by the Seattle Restored Program which is a program that is activating vacant storefronts and windows with engaging pop-up shops and art installations from local entrepreneurs, artists, and makers in Seattle’s neighborhoods.</strong></p><h3>A﻿bout Anima Mundi</h3><p><strong>Anima Mundi  is an interdisciplinary work that challenges the amnesia that contemporary human beings have in their connection to the rest of the natural world and to each other. It explores our longing for oneness, our unconscious animistic tendencies to create extensions of ourselves through technology, and our urgent need for the awakening of compassion for the beings - human and nonhuman - that surround us. The work will incorporate performance, installation, video projection and live music to create an immersive world that challenges the viewer to reflect on their own relationship to the rest of nature and attempts to take an approach that honors the non-human perspective. The work is driven by the yearning we feel to reconnect with a sense of place, the materials and inanimate objects around us, and with our ancestral spirits.</strong></p><h3>Blanket Drive</h3><p><strong>We ask attendees to bring an offering  to the event such as blankets, new socks and underwear, gloves, hats, scarves  or other items to help keep people in our neighborhood warm. These items will be distributed in the days following the event.</strong></p>

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