Performance Times
Thu, Aug 1: 4 - 9 pm
Fri, Aug 2: 4 - 9 pm
Sat, Aug 3: 3 - 8 pm
Sun, Aug 4: 3 - 8 pm

As this is a durational piece, patrons are welcome to come and go as the work unfolds, and tickets may be used for repeat admission to the installation over the course of the weekend. One ticket is required per patron; IDs will be checked at the door. Tickets are NOT TRANSFERABLE. No exchanges or refunds.

“Serendipity rules one moment, exquisitely calibrated dance the next. Suspense builds as dancers negotiate fatigue, becoming looser and more courageous as they travel though shifting areas of light.”

– Linda Shapiro, City Pages

On the Boards and Base co-present Minneapolis-based choreographer Morgan Thorson's acclaimed ensemble dance installation, Still Life at Base in Georgetown.

Created for a white-walled gallery space, Still Life is an ensemble dance installation that uses time as both subject and practice to process loss, killing, and extinction. Structured as a dance/time cycle, Still Life explores the death of choreography through the decay of material. As this pattern unfolds, the performers enact aliveness, endurance and anxiety to survive the repetition and loss of material, as well as the indeterminate relationships of light, movement and sound. Staged in close proximity to the viewer, Still Life offers a space for contemplation, processes the violence of the present moment, and creates a long-form choreography that investigates dance as a living and dying thing. Dance and visual art audiences alike will get to experience a singular take on time, extinction, presence, and death.

The work will run in five-hour durational segments for four days, and features a cast of dancers from Portland, Minneapolis and Seattle, including Alyza DelPan-Monley, Fox Whitney, Jordan MacIntosh-Hougham and Meredith Pellon (understudy).

Watch an Excerpt of *Still Life*

Related Events
SUN, AUG 4, 11:30 AM: ARTIST TALK*: Stillness & Liveness in Choreography*
Presented at and in partnership with Seattle Art Fair.
A conversation with artist Morgan Thorson, On the Boards Artistic Director Rachel Cook, and Base Co-Founder and choreographer Dayna Hanson. Tickets available through Seattle Art Fair.
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