Title: Mapping the River II

Premiere: March 19, 2011. The University of Michigan Museum of Art Museum Apse, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

a collaborative performance work of dance, music, poetry and video

 Storyline and concept:  Sara Adlerstein, Evan Chambers, Jessica Fogel, Doug Hesseltine, and Keith Taylor

 Choreographer, in collaboration with the dancers:  Jessica Fogel

 Dancers:  Ellen Busch, Jillian Hopper, Isabella Ingels, Maddy Rager, Kelli Yapp

 Poetry:  Keith Taylor

 Video Editor and Cinematography for Video Backdrop: Christi Vedejs, with additional editing for the current adapted performance by Joey Ostrander

 Performers in video:  Sara Adlerstein, Bridget Hohner, Sarah Tomsky

 Paintings within video:  Sara Adlerstein

 Lighting Design and Stage Manager:  Mary Cole

 Costumes:  Suzanne Young

 Music:   

 Where is the River  and Everything Flows and additional music interludes composed by Evan Chambers

 Percussion Improvisations directed by Joseph Gramley and performed by Andrew Bahle, Joseph Gramley, and Evan Laybourn 

 Singers: Evan Chambers, Recep Gul, Kathryn Mueller, Michael Schacter

 Violin and Dulcimer:  Evan Chambers

 Pianist:  Suzanne Camino

DESCRIPTION:       I served as team leader and choreographer for a project commissioned for the Arts on Earth conference, “Arts and the Environment” that took place November 5-8, 2008. The work was subsequently revised and remounted in March 2011 for five dancers with new music by Evan Chambers, for an Arts and the Environment Symposium held at the UM Museum of Art as part of UM’s “Water Theme” Semester with support from the Office of the Vice President for Research. An interdisciplinary group of UM faculty members and students created the performance as well as  a related multi-media installation and a video documentary.  Collaborators included UM colleagues Sara Adlerstein, School of Natural Resources and Environment; Evan Chambers, composer, School of Music, Theatre & Dance; Joseph Gramley percussionist, School of Music, Theatre & Dance; Doug Hesseltine, Graphic Designer, School of Art & Design; Keith Taylor,  poet, MFA Writing Program, College of Literature, Science and the Arts; Christi Vedejs, Videographer, and several UM Music and Dance majors.   Video showings of work aired at an arts and environment conference, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile; at Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia (Balearic Oceanography Center), Mallorca, Spain; at the International Association for Great Lakes Research Conference, University of Toledo, Toledo.

Program
Interview with Barbara Lucas on cable TV
http://a2cititv.pegcentral.com/flash/media_player_798b.swf?server=alpha-rtmp.pegcentral.com&account=a2cititv&videoFilename=GR29.mp4&pointer=3&startState=pause

University of Michigan podcasts
http://ns.umich.edu/podcast/video.php?id=725
http://ummedia04.rs.itd.umich.edu/~nis/huron_feb_09.mov

Mlive preview

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/02/mapping_the_river_back_for_enc.html

http://the-communicator.org/tag/jessica-fogel/