An extreme endurance blowout wherein a dancer and a drummer blend fierce rock sensibilities with meticulous technique and spiral into an intoxicated collapse.
Live Performance
2008:
- MassArt, Pozen Center (Boston, MA)
2009:
- West Street Market (Reno, NV)
- 21 Grand (Oakland, CA)
- Eighteen-Thirty (Los Angeles, CA)
- The Underground (Reno, NV)
- 85 South Hanford (Seattle, WA) – Part of Dead Bird Movement’s “Dead Bird Double Feature”
- K.D. Japon (Nagoya, Japan)
- Village (Kyoto, Japan)
- Organ’s Melody (Yamaguchi, Japan)
- Cafe Flying Teapot (Tokyo, Japan)
- Artland (Tokyo, Japan)
Credits:
- Concept, Choreography, & Direction: Jessie Smith
- Performer: Jessie Smith
- Music: Jeffrey Mitchell
- Lighting, Set, & Costume Design: Jessie Smith
Press:
- “Jessie Smith is a tough young bird” by Brendan Kiley of The Stranger
- “Dance company’s double feature stretches the mind, the ear” by Michael Upchurch of The Seattle Times
- “Dead Bird’s Boozy Japanese Vacation” by Jeremy Barker of The SunBreak
Funded in part by:
- 4Culture, Individual Projects Grant
- Artist Trust, GAP Grant
- Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation
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