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Interiors - 2008

Interiors I is the first half of an indoor vertical dance piece by choreographer Amelia Rudolph in collaboration with the dancers of Project Bandaloop, with an interactive set design by Todd Laby that celebrates and questions assumptions about every day life. Interiors I turns this world on its side, exploring relationships in domestic space through lyrical, minimalist and highly physical three-dimensional dance that references both physical and mental interiors. In the context of a "house", movement that negotiates a climbable flying dinner table and a suspended oversized picture frame animates and magnifies the smaller motions of life. The set and the dance evoke an "interior" bristling with underlying mischief.

The piece begins with an element of surprise and evokes an emotional landscape through movement that includes a sideways dinner party, dancing with furniture and a suspended mysterious trio in which the chandelier come to "life". It returns to a playful conclusion as guests join in on what is an intimate and awkward sideways date at the hanging table. Throughout the piece a single character remains in the picture frame, observing, only to be intruded upon once by the house dwellers. Together the piece tells a topsy-turvy story of the beauty in the everyday. The multi-dimensional choreography reframes movement, relationships and values unearthing the beauty of the quotidian and expanding the ordinary to include the absurd.

Crossing: Stories of Gravity and Transformation — 2002

Originally this piece was an eighteen-day performance traverse of the Sierra Nevada from East to West to create site-specific work including a 1,200 foot vertical octet on Wildcat Point at the headwaters of the Tuolumne River. This collaboration included cinematographer Greg Bernstein, composer/musician Zachary Carrettin, eight performers, four riggers and 4,000 feet of climbing rope. This piece was adapted for the stage in 2003 with a Creation Grant from the National Dance Project and additional support from Creative Capital . A multi-media video and musical score, funded through Rudolph's Irvine Fellowship in Dance was developed in 2001 to accompany the indoor work.

Performance Venues: Swarthmore College, 2004-Kennedy Center, 2004- The Grand Auditorium, Macau China, 2005-Theater Artaud, SF, 2005

TriTangoMetro — 2000

This three movement work has an original score by Raymond Granlund, featuring Zachary Carrettin on violin. This tango-influenced work was adapted to the theater for the 2003-2004 Season.

Performance Venues: Detroit Arts Festival – Detroit, MI
Hilton Tower – Portland, OR
Mondavi Center for the Arts – Davis, CA
Cherry Cr. Arts Festival – Denver, CO
Reno Arts Festival – Reno, NV
Domingo Building – Oakland, CA

Luminescent Flights — 2000

Commissioned by the Wolftrap Foundation for the Performing Arts , for the first annual "Face of America" Series, this piece celebrates Yosemite National Park through a multi-media work that includes film from site-specific work performed on cliffs at 2,400 feet near Yosemite Falls and on Lost Arrow Spire. The theatrical piece mixes the Yosemite film with choreography on the ground and in the air.

Performance Venues: Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts –Washington, DC
-Theater Artaud – San Francisco, CA-Bumbershoot -Seattle, WA.

Resonate — 2000

Commissioned by San Francisco's Creative Work Fund this was a collaboration between Amelia Rudolph, David Worm of the A Cappella group SoVoSo and Sculptor Lawrence La Bianca. The piece follows a character from a frenetic urbanism to a mysterious and playful natural world. Bianca's hanging "up-side-down trees" serve as both set and climbing structures.

Performance Venue: Theater Artaud – San Francisco, CA

Bach Wall — 1999

This piece takes place on and off a six-paneled climbing wall to Johanne Sebastian Bach's Sonata #1 in G minor and Erbarme Dich for St. Matthew's Passion. It explores connection and isolation played out through solo, trio and group choreography.

Performance Venues: Dance Mission – San Francisco, CA-Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts – Washington, DC-Theater Artaud – San Francisco, CA

 

Peregrine Dreams — 1997

This piece was made site-specifically on a six-day ascent of The Shield on El Capitan in Yosemite. The dance celebrated the return of the Peregrine Falcon from the brink of extinction and was made into two short documentaries by cinematographer Greg Bernstein that aired on cable television. Rigging for this piece was created by Steve Schneider and Peter Mayfield. It was adapted to the urban setting for performances on the New San Francisco Library, also in 1997.

Indecent Exposure — 1992

Rudolph's first site-specific work in nature. An overnight quartet 500 feet up on El Capitan, in Yosemite, it was an aerial quartet with music by Elyzabeth Meade and rigging by Peter Mayfield, Steve Schneider, Rich Albushcat and Scott Cosgrove.