Maraming: A Multimedia Performance by the Uh Oh Trio

1251 Kearns Blvd.,Park City UT 84060

22 April, 2022

Description

A multimedia response of sound, projection, and dance to the stories, characters, and images in Maia Cruz Palileo‘s exhibition, Long Kwento. This performance lasts from 5pm-8pm, with ongoing sound and video projection and intermittent live movement. Visitors are encouraged to stay as little or as long as they want. Seating will be provided at the venue upon request at the front desk. The Uh-Oh Trio presents Maraming, a multimedia response of sound, projection, and dance to the stories, characters, and images within Maia Cruz Palileo‘s exhibition, Long Kwento. Ukulele, bells, Sungka shells, and popular early 20th century Filipina song styles are expanded, repeated, transformed, and re-imagined into an electronic ambient soundscape by Loren Kiyoshi Dempster. Film projections invoke an aesthetics of busog. Performers Dahlia Nayar and Margaret Sunghe Paek question scripted movements in the gallery, responding to Long Kwento’s provocations to unpack, to remember, to dream, to play. Uh Oh Trio is a collaboration between Dahlia Nayar, Margaret Sunghe Paek, and Loren Kiyoshi Demspter. They adapt sound and movement projects to alternative spaces, working in the modes of live performance, installation, and multimedia exhibits. Their residency activities include master classes/workshops across multiple disciplines and departments including but not limited to dance/film/art/history/communications/ exploring themes of diaspora, belonging, and non-belonging. About the Artists: Dahlia Nayar’s works have been selected for the Venice Biennale/Danza Venezia Showcase for Emerging Choreographers, Dance Place in Washington DC, the 2012 Next Stage Dance Residency at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh, and the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, NY. In addition, her site specific projects have been performed at the National Botanical Gardens, the Kennedy Center and the Complejo Cultural, in Puebla, Mexico. She was a National Dance Project Regional Dance Lab artist, Vermont Performance Lab Artist, and Bates Dance Festival emerging choreographer in residence. She holds an MFA in Dance/Choreography from Hollins University and has been a guest artist at Salem State College, College of the Holy Cross, Long Island University in Brooklyn, Marymount Manhattan College, Duke University and Smith College among others. She is a recipient of the Jacob Javits Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Choreography, National Dance Project Touring Award and is currently pursuing her PhD in Performance Studies at the University of California in Berkeley. www.dahlianayar.com Margaret Sunghe Paek is dedicated to collaboration and sees dance as a life practice. She is a Lower Left collective artist (www.lowerleft.org) and is deeply influenced by her relationships with contact improvisation, Ensemble Thinking, Alexander Technique, Barbara Dilley, Nina Martin, Shelley Senter, Dahlia Nayar, Loren Dempster and their daughter. In NYC, Margaret teaches for Movement Research and Manhattanville College, and her work has been presented at the Whitney Museum Biennial 2012, Judson Church, Danspace at St. Mark’s Church, and Joyce Soho. The practice of teaching is integral to her creative process, and Margaret has been a movement educator for over twenty years. In 2015, Margaret accepted a position teaching dance in the Conservatory of Music at Lawrence University. www.margaretpaek.com Loren Kiyoshi Dempster uses a combination of computer, electronics, cello and extended techniques to create and perform music. An active chamber musician, composer, and improviser he performs with the Dan Joseph Ensemble, Trio Triticali, and Left Hand Path among many others. Ever interested in the relationship of movement and sound, he has recently performed for choreographers and collaborators Harrison Atelier, Jonah Bokaer, Merce Cunningham, Chris Ferris, Dahlia Nayar, Margaret Paek, and projectLIMB. www.lorendempster.com