Category: Archived Projects

A satellite project of the Letter to the World series, Savings is an interactive performance installation exploring the corroding effect of time on a slowly fading relationship. Set in an abandoned bank, the 4-hour performance focused on two characters, Anna and Tom, and took place in six different installations in locations including the bank vault, and a grand marble staircase. Viewers could enter and exit the work at their own discretion, and chose the order and length of observing each vignettes. Audience members explored the many small artifacts of Anna and Tom’s relationship housed in safety deposit boxes. In another room, Anna wrote letters to Tom, unfinished and crumpled. When Anna left, Tom would enter, open the discarded letters that were never really meant for him to read. Faded video…

Inspired by the architecture of Gould Hall at The University of Washington, D. Chase Angier and Jennifer Salk created a poetic site-specific performance exploring the difficulties of finding love in a time of complicated lifestyles, technological distraction and diminishing public spaces. During the performance, the audience was brought to various vantage points throughout the four-story atrium to watch a man and woman’s struggle to come together. This central story was complimented by dances being performed by a large cast, and duets performed on the staircases. Powerfully contrasting experiences of proximity and distance—between performers, and between performers and their audience— within the open concrete and glass environment made for a visually striking and emotionally resonant dance work.

A quirky dance-theater piece that explores the phenomenon of attraction from a variety of perspectives. Set to the music of The Mamas and the Papas, Joe Cocker, Frankie Valli, and Hot Club Sandwich; a variety of characters differing in age, gender and sexual orientation, search for love and attention.  As in real life, often those needs are not met, yet every so often the unexpected happens. Choreography by D. Chase Angier Performed by Nathan Abel, Anthony Cedeno, Sunny Cho, Kristen Clancy, Scott DeFrance-Norton, Briell Giancola, Hallie Kistler, Heather Liggett, Eden Palmer, Brian Pierce, Julie Verdone Music includes Hot Club Sandwich, Joe Cocker, The Mamas and the Papas, Frankie Valli Costume Design by D. Chase Angier Lighting Designed by Michael Mehler

Walking Kyoto Each participant is given a map of the walking route created by D. Chase Angier, and a link to music that accompanies the route created by John Laprade.  The length of the walk, the order of curated sites passed along the way, and the music  inspired by the specifics of the route are carefully combined to create a transformative experience. www.walkingkyoto.wordpress.com Kyoto Site Studies Performed in Gion, Kyoto Train Station, Kennin-Ji Temple in Kyoto, JapanPerformed by Saki Kitahara, Mai Maruo, Yumiko Nischo

Paper I The Paper Series, performed in Alfred, New York and the Czech Republic, investigates one intuitive idea through three genres. Each work uses large amounts of 8 ½ x 11 inch white office paper and hanging bare white light bulbs and explores questions about identity through accomplishment, saving/purging, spreading/stacking and a profound need for time, space and clarity. Paper I is a Dance Theater work, Paper II is a Performance Installation and Paper III is a Performance Art work. The performances took place in three separate sites, with three different groups of collaborators from the visual arts, sound art and music, and performance. Paper II Paper III

Happy Dances I Site Specific PerformanceNew YorkChoreographed by D. Chase AngierPerformed by Alfred University Students, set by Marketa Fantova's studentsMusic by Ohio Players, Parliament Happy Dances 1 was a site-specific event that included 25 performers, over 100 audience members that became participants, and a fire truck. The music was played loudly from a car stereo as dancers performed in the windows,  and other areas surrounding the audience.  Flashing lights from the fire truck and audience held flashlights provided the light.  The piece concluded with a spontaneous dance party that went well into the night. Happy Dances II Happy Dances II was performed outside in the rain nonstop for six hours. Each participant danced alone or with friends to their favorite song wearing clothing that made them happy within a cheeky…