Tiger Balm
PROCESS DANCE PROCESS
October 25, 2023
Red Eye Theater
KEALOHA FERREIRA | HIJACK
From dance, to dance, by dance, for dance: for the skeptics, the ambivalent, and the believers
A salve for those who are jaded by talkbacks
An irritant if you insist on a singular lens
An ongoingness, a continuous labor, an unarrival
A viewing practice of holding complexity, difference, context, impact
The pleasure of the sting, the slow burn, and, if you're lucky: an opening.
Two short dance works in process. One running experiment in discussion, together. Because relational, because dance, because dance wants to be in conversations of dance, because dance is what wants.
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
7 pm
Red Eye Theater
2213 Snelling Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55404
TICKETS
$5 - $15 sliding scale
ACCESSIBILITY
Red Eye's performance space is fully wheelchair-accessible. To request ASL interpretation, audio description, large-print programs, or other accessibility-related accommodations for any event, please contact us with as much advance notice as possible. staff@redeyetheater.org | 612.870.7531
About the artists
Kealoha Ferreira
Fetch the carrying stick! A big eyed image sends for you. It features your likeness summoned from adzes. Carved into the ends of the auamo. ʻO ʻoe kā! So it’s you. ʻO kā mākou kā kāu mea i manaʻo ai. So ours is what you wanted. Try and go; Go and get. Or perhaps don’t.
Photo: Laichee Yang
HIJACK
Sister City for Tiger Balm
HIJACK is the Minneapolis-based choreographic collaboration of Kristin Van Loon and Arwen Wilder. HIJACK is the confluence and clash of two independent compositional/kinesthetic impulses. Their dances embrace juxtaposition. Their dances house unlikely intimates and question “who is the enemy?”
Over the last 30 years they have created over 100 dances and performed in venues ranging from proscenium to barely-legal. HIJACK has performed in New York (at DTW, PS122, HERE ArtCenter, Catch/Movement Research Festival, La Mama, Dixon Place, Chocolate Factory), Japan, Russia, Central America, Ottawa, Chicago, Colorado, New Orleans, Seattle, Philadelphia, San Francisco, at Fuse Box Festival in Austin Texas, Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation (SFDI), and Bates Dance Festival in Maine. In 2013, Walker Art Center commissioned “redundant, ready, reading, radish, Red Eye” to celebrate twenty years of HIJACK and Contact Quarterly published the chapbook “Passing for Dance: A HIJACK Reader”. Their recent dance — HIJACK’s SWAY (a trio with Jules Bither in a forest of kinetic sculptures by Rachel Youn) — premiered at The Cowles Center in downtown Minneapolis last winter and will be reimagined for the Rochester Art Center in late 2024.
HIJACK teaches Improvisation and Composition at the University of MN, Carleton College and Zenon Dance School and hosts/curates FUTURE INTERSTATES—the sporadic series for dance improvisation performance.
Tiger Balm is supported by a grant from the Jerome Foundation.