slowdanger + Smart Snow
~in conversation~
Digital Emotions, Digital Empathy:
slowdanger’s empathy machine and Smart Snow’s Vibracorpus
slowdanger
empathy machine
Presented by The Kelly-Strayhorn Theater at Alloy Studios for their 2019 Summer Season
Directed and Conceived by: slowdanger (anna thompson / taylor knight)
Smart Snow
Vibracorpus
Directed and Conceived by Smart Snow — Kathleen Kelley and Sarah Rose Nordgren
Music by Caroline Partimian
anna thompson and taylor knight, are co-founders of performance entity, slowdanger. Together, they fuse sound and movement through improvised contemporary and postmodern dance frameworks, using found material, vocalization, and ontological examination to engage in collaborative work. Performers manifest as a non-binary entity that is one body amassed of multiple bodies in space. slowdanger aims to bring disparate points, people and disciplines together to interface and innovate. slowdanger has been featured in Dance Magazine’s ‘ 25 to Watch’, The MoMA, The Andy Warhol Museum, Usine C, Dance Place and more. They were Creatives in Residence at the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at CMU and Performers in Residence at the Carnegie Museum of Art. slowdanger has received support from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Heinz Endowments, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and The Opportunity Fund.
Smart Snow is a collaboration between dance choreographer and media artist Kathleen Kelley and poet Sarah Rose Nordgren. Since meeting at a high school party and recognizing each other as artistic soul-mates, they have been working together formally and informally for over 15 years. Smart Snow gives a name to their lifelong artistic relationship..
Smart Snow creates art that pushes the forms of dance and poetry into new technological territories. As women working at the intersections between art and tech, Kathleen and Sarah Rose are interested in the mirrored relationship between technological and evolutionary processes and the “natural” and the “human” inside of digital spaces.
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