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swimming the list (co-production with Susie J Lee)


TWO EVENING PERFORMANCES ONLY:

Friday, Sept 23rd 8PM

Saturday, Sept 24th 8PM


Matinee: Sunday, September 25th at 2PM


Lead artist:  Susie J Lee

Dancer/Choreographer:   Ying Zhou

Composer/Voice:   Emily Greenleaf

Digital artist:   Keeara Rhoades

Software design:   Andy Wilson

Pianist: Jerrod Wendland

Choreographic Assistant: Leah Vendl

Lighting Design: Mandi Wood


"Takes on a particular splendor" Jim Demetre, Art Dish


"Neurotic, erotic, and electric..." Jen Graves, The Stranger


"A remarkable performance. . ." Jeremy Barker, SunBreak



For one weekend only, Stranger Genius Award winner Susie Lee fuses dance, technology and live music to present an imaginatively intense and fantastical journey of creativity throughout a routine day. After sold-out runs two years ago, the Susie Lee Ensemble debuts this new work at Theatre Off Jackson.


SWIMMING THE LIST merges cutting-edge technology with physical artistry, in which dancer, music, and drawn light move together as one twirling, breathing, and dynamic body. These elements come together in a work about dovetailing creative and everyday actions:


As artists, we have studios designated, physically, as creative spaces. People understand that in those spaces, rehearsals, sketches, and compositions are generated. The space validates creativity, and it's a lovely place to be. But in the span of a day, other obligations demand that we often not be in that space, physically.


We have access to another creative space in time that can exist within a daily routine. This work presents these interstitial, transitory spaces. They are fragments of time interwoven between the mundane activities. They are the stolen moments, the scraps of paper, the waiting in line, the letting the mind wander, the dozing dream. This creative space is sporadic, yet consistently sporadic, and sometimes the thoughts nestle next to obligatory actions, and sometimes they pull away.


So as time progresses, there are two lists generated in the span of a day. One is for the routine obligations that mark every day. We buy, go, cook, pay, work, pick up, and start over again. The other is for the creative obligations; we observe, extract, mutate, expand, deviate, question and linger.



about Susie J Lee


Susie Lee's work bridges the gap between technology driven, time-based media with intimate human experience. Shortly after completing her MFA, Lee was recognized by Seattle Weekly as the "2006 Emerging Artist of the Year" for the "intelligence, emotion and sensuality" of her video art. Following her first solo exhibition at Lawrimore Project in 2007, Lee was named "An Artist to Watch" by the national publication Artnews. Lee's work has been exhibited widely, from Miami to Los Angeles, at the Denver Art Museum, Denver, and Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, and internationally in Italy (Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno; and Artefiere Bologna, Bologna), and at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea. She was the winner of the 2010 Stranger Visual Art Genius Award. In 2011, as a recipient of the Northwest Contemporary Art Awards, her work was recently exhibited at the Portland Art Museum. Her first museum solo exhibition, "Of Breath and Rain" will be presented at the Frye Art Museum in February, 2012. Lee is represented by Lawrimore Project, Seattle; Myers Contemporary, Baltimore; and Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno.