Inhabit May 4, 2007

Lingo Mingles Wine, Dance, and Conversation in INHABIT

INHABIT, the latest installation from KT Niehoff’s Lingo, is a choreographed party, where the conversation is as good as the wine, anticipation is built and fulfilled, and every guest is there to celebrate a moment, the very moment you are in. Four performers challenge preconceived ideas of dance and provide a space for the community to engage with art and each other, to affect and be affected by the world around them. Breaking with the traditional weekend dance run philosophy of “dance and dash”, INHABIT will run 20 performances over 5 weeks: April 19-May 19 at Capitol Hill Arts Center. Due to the intimate structure of the performance, each audience will be limited to 50 people.

Produced in association with CHAC and Art Patch, INHABIT allows guests a range of proximal vantage points to watch the performance unfold. Guests and dancers move about the room, their interactions punctuated by food, wine, and easy conversation. These simple, surprising encounters dash usual performance expectations and give permission for each guest to own the world of the work as his or her own.

INHABIT is dance, a party, and a ritual. INHABIT is ending a long day weightless, shedding the debris of work and noise and bringing each audience member into the present. Spectacle is shirked for intimacy, while connection trumps conventional performance.

As the Lingo quartet of Bianca Cabrera, Dustin Haug, KT Niehoff and Aaron Swartzman enter their sixth year of working together, INHABIT offers each company member’s profound understanding of Niehoff’s signature movement style which combines hypnotic states of inversion, lushly virtuosic partnering and hyper-mobile, spinal delicacy. In addition, INHABIT excavates the private, performance prowess exclusive to each artist by demanding a physical and emotional unearthing of how each distinctively dwells in place and body.

Official Website: http://seattleperforms.com/component/option,com_nathevents/action,details/show_id,2592