Moon In the Bucket (the film)

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Silk Road
Exploring stories of immigrant women in the workplace.
Click here for a review by The Stranger.

Silk Road co-produced by House of Dames, Consolidated Works and AC Petersen Dance at Consolidated Works Seattle; AC Petersen, direction and movement; Erin Shie Palmer, installation and set; Susie Kozawa, sound gathering and recording; Garrett Fisher, Composer and Lyricist; Meg Fox, Lighting Designer, Ken, Production Manager; Jeb Lewis, Production Assistant; Bill Petersen, Sound Engineer.
Soprano: Ellaina Lewis; Performer/Dancer/Collalborators: Alethea Adsitt, Amanda Findley, Jasmine Kar Tang, Eryn Schon, Vanessa Villalobos
Deborah Person, line producer; ACT Theatre, production assistance and production partner. Developed with assistance from the Bossak/Heilbron Foundation, Seattle Arts Commission, King County Arts Commission, Wing Luke Asian Museum, and many individual supporters. Created in parallel with "If Tired Hands Could Talk." Opening performance benefitted the Refugee Women's Alliance

Golden Section
Performed in Padang on the island of Sumatra (or Sumatera), Indonesia.
performed by Emma; rehearsal director, Eryn Schon

Moon in the Bucket
A collaboration with composer Garrett Fisher, a contemporary re-telling of the popular Japanese Noh play, Matsukaze, in which the ghosts of two sisters inhabit a pine tree. Performed by two dancers, one soprano, three voices, koto, oboe, harmonium and percussion.
Moon In the Bucket the performance produced by AC Petersen Dance and Garrett Fisher; original music by Garrett Fisher; Meg Fox, Lighting Designer; Savak Stephens, Tech Guy Extraordinaire; Performer/Collaborators: Alethea Adsitt, Sandra Fann; Musician/Collaborators: Oboe, Taina Karr; Taiko: William Satake Blauvelt and Stan Shikuma; Indian harmonium, Garrett Fisher; Koto, Elizabeth Falconer
Developed with support from the King County Arts Commission and the Bossak/Heilbron foundation.

The Girls of St. Madeleine's
Inspired by Ludwig Bemelman's children's stories.
Produced by AC Petersen Dance. Garrett Fisher, Composer; Meg Fox, Lighting Designer; Craig Wollam, Set Designer; Performer/Collaborators: Wade Madsen, Diana Cardiff, Fumi Murakami, Kristin Carpenter, Sandra Fann
Musicians: Garrett Fisher, Matthew Anderson, Taina Karr
Produced with support from the Seattle Arts Commission

Falling is Best
A bittersweet duet created for dancers Kara O'Toole and Ron Shreev, performed to recorded text and the muisc of the Ink Spots. The title, Falling is Best is from Ranier Maria Rilke's poem, To Holderlin: "We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to others that suddenly must be filled; there are no lakes 'til eternity. Here, falling is best. To fall from the mastered emotion into the guessed-at, and onward."
"as much of the heart as of the mind" -- Seattle Gay News

Urban Goddess
An examination of the transition from a matrilineal agrarian culture to a patriarchal urban culture, eight dancers perform movement ranging from slow and ritualistic to highly physical and intricate drill team patterns.

Voice of the Heart, Voice of the Hand
Three dancers and a church pew; music from Morton Gould to Aretha Franklin.
"A winning example of choreographic fixation . . . a religious feeling combining the sensibility of a Doris Humphrey work with a revivalist ambience as set on The Supremes." -- Seattle P-I