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Tim Smith-Stewart & Jeffrey Azevedo Salvage Rituals (Work-in-Progress Showing)

Sat, Feb 1 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

This work-in-progress showing invites the audience into the first iteration of an ongoing community practice and dance party. Born from a private ritual to mourn friends very much alive but lost to unsupported neurodivergence and addiction, Salvage Rituals is interested in the potential of communal ritual intersecting with DIY engineering as an embodied practice of mutualism/mutual aid. A rigorous movement score takes place on a hexagonal platform constructed of piezoelectric tiles, which transforms the mechanical stress from the performers' bodies into electrical current, actively powering the stage lights.

Performers/collaborators include Alyza DelPan-Monley, Sophie Franco, Alice Gosti, Alexandra Harding, Erin McCarthy, Stefan Richmond, Charles Smith-Stewart, and Paul Smith-Stewart. The performance culminates in a dance party featuring DJ Alice.

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Tim Smith-Stewart & Jeffrey Azevedo Salvage Rituals (Work-in-Progress Showing)

About the Artists

Tim Smith-Stewart

Tim Smith-Stewart

Tim Smith-Stewart is a queer interdisciplinary artist who uses text as his primary medium for creating installations and performances. He was recently a resident artist in the spring 2018 PICA Creative Exchange Lab cohort.

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Jeffrey Azevedo

Jeffrey Azevedo

Jeffrey Azevedo is a Seattle-based theater artist and the managing director of Washington Ensemble Theatre. As an actor Azevedo has performed in the Washington Ensemble Theatre’s productions of Cherdonna’s Doll’s House, The Things Are Against Us, and Teh Internet is Serious Business. He holds degrees in Theater Arts and Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

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Salvage Rituals is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by On the Boards (Seattle) in partnership with Risk/Reward (Portland) and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org. Tim Smith-Stewart and Jeffrey Azevedo participated in On the Boards’ 18/19 Artists-in-Residence Program.