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Scratch Night
Thursday, April 7th
WHAT IS SCRATCH NIGHT?
An eclectic salon of works-in-progress from KC's most exciting generative artists alongside a unique audience feedback framework.
TONIGHT'S RUN ORDER
Kyle Mullins, Cerca Trova (approx. 10mins)
Audience Feedback for Kyle (approx. 10mins)
Stephonne & Sisterbot (approx. 60mins)
Audience Feedback for Stephanie & SisterBot (approx. 10mins)
Note: this piece uses some flashing lights
An eclectic salon of works-in-progress from KC's most exciting generative artists alongside a unique audience feedback framework.
TONIGHT'S RUN ORDER
Kyle Mullins, Cerca Trova (approx. 10mins)
Audience Feedback for Kyle (approx. 10mins)
Stephonne & Sisterbot (approx. 60mins)
Audience Feedback for Stephanie & SisterBot (approx. 10mins)
Note: this piece uses some flashing lights
Kyle Mullins, Cerca Trova
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Exploring autobiography, memory, the Heroe’s Journey, and the bittersweet aging of the Performer. Using movement and dance-theater, dance-maker Kyle Mullins uses the language of contemporary and post-modern dance, music, and text to create a new evening-length solo performed by its creator. This in-process new work seeks to find intersections dance-making with road trips, nostalgia, the poetry of Alex Dimitrov, the writing of Haruki Murakami, Chopin’s nocturnes, moon phases, and more. The work is in collaboration with scenic and visual artist Tim Rothwell to be premiered in late 2022.
Kyle's Questions
- What three words would you use to describe how you felt 1) before, 2) during, and 3) after Kyle's performance tonight?
- What memory/memories came up for you while I was moving?
- Please draw the moment that you most remember.
Stephonne & Sisterbot
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Featuring a shared live band and co-mingled set, Charlotte Street Studio Residents Stephonne ("sultry, silky, vocal grit...") and Sisterbot ("punk pop chamber orchestra") present a performative song cycle exploring the theme of juxtaposition: open and closed, beginning and end, dark and light, intimacy and grandiosity.
Stephonne & Sisterbot's Questions
- Describe the piece in one word.
- Did the two acts feel cohesive within the concept of 'Flip The Switch'?
- If you hadn't been told the title of the piece, what might you title it?
- We're working to develop this into a longer, more interwoven show. Share with us a range or price of admission you think would be ideal for us to charge for this experience when it's fully developed. Relatedly, thinking beyond cash, what are ways we might think imaginatively about admissions (trades, donations, or otherwise)?
About the Artists
Sisterbot
Sisterbot's Adee Rocket Dancy is a cellist, vocalist, music director, and songwriter from Kansas City, Missouri. She spent most of her life training to become a classical cellist, but was called to popular and creative music-making after finishing a music degree at the UMKC Conservatory of Music & Dance. Adee is inspired by any and all music, and loves to draw from her long list of influences for her own songwriting. From the Indigo Girls, to Janelle Monae, Lady Gaga, Miki P, Allen Stone, PJ Morton, Yo-Yo Ma, Lizzo, Bernhoft, Jacob Collier, Panic! at the Disco, and so many more- her musical style and interest can’t be pinpointed- and she doesn’t try to. Adee believes in making music and art from the heart, and without inhibition or genre boundaries. She wishes to inspire her listeners with uplifting and truthful lyrics, and presenting her words in rich harmony and soulful movement.
Stephonne
Stephonne is an up and coming alternative rock and R&B artist based in Kansas City, Missouri. Inspired by the sounds of Prince and Billie Holiday, Stephonne has an unmistakable sultry and soulful voice that sends his listeners on a visceral and experiential journey. In 2015, Stephonne released his first single “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, followed by “Unworthy” and several other singles throughout the years. He released his first full length album titled Caged Bird Sings Songs About Red Beard in 2018 and an EP titled Sis: Side A in 2020. He will be releasing the companion EP, Sis: Side B in Spring 2022. Stephonne is always working to push boundaries with his music and provide his listeners with new experiences audibly and visually.
Kyle Mullins
Kyle Mullins is a dance artist living and creating in Kansas City, MO and artistic director of his contemporary dance-theater project Cerca Trova and producer of Making Moves, a monthly dance series. Kyle’s work has been seen at Triskelion Arts, BCBeat, City in Motion Dance Theater, The University of Kansas, The Unicorn Theatre, Kansas City Public Theater, Cottey College, and the Lawrence Dance Intensive. Kyle’s film work has been commissioned by Powell Gardens, Tarble Arts Center, and presented with No Divide KC. Mullins danced in NYC for ten years before relocating home to Kansas City. In New York City, Mullins danced with the Second Avenue Dance Company, The Steps Repertory Ensemble, dre.dance, Nicholas Andre, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas and Dancers, and York Dance Works. He has has worked with Crystal Pite, Donald Byrd, Benoit-Swan Pouffer, Aszure Barton, Sean Curran, Camille A. Brown, Nathan Trice, Cherice Barton, Andrea Miller, Larry Keigwin, Shannon Gillen, Zvi Gotheiner, and Gregory Dolbashian. Since relocating back to Kansas City, he has had the pleasure to perform works by Mary Pat Henry, Gary Abbott, Shapiro and Smith, and Kevin Iyega Jeff with Wylliams Henry Contemporary Dance Company. As an arts administrator, Kyle is the Art Director for Kansas City’s Art in the Loop and serves as the Artist Services Program Coordinator for Mid-America Arts Alliance. He holds a MFA in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Sisterbot's Adee Rocket Dancy is a cellist, vocalist, music director, and songwriter from Kansas City, Missouri. She spent most of her life training to become a classical cellist, but was called to popular and creative music-making after finishing a music degree at the UMKC Conservatory of Music & Dance. Adee is inspired by any and all music, and loves to draw from her long list of influences for her own songwriting. From the Indigo Girls, to Janelle Monae, Lady Gaga, Miki P, Allen Stone, PJ Morton, Yo-Yo Ma, Lizzo, Bernhoft, Jacob Collier, Panic! at the Disco, and so many more- her musical style and interest can’t be pinpointed- and she doesn’t try to. Adee believes in making music and art from the heart, and without inhibition or genre boundaries. She wishes to inspire her listeners with uplifting and truthful lyrics, and presenting her words in rich harmony and soulful movement.
Stephonne
Stephonne is an up and coming alternative rock and R&B artist based in Kansas City, Missouri. Inspired by the sounds of Prince and Billie Holiday, Stephonne has an unmistakable sultry and soulful voice that sends his listeners on a visceral and experiential journey. In 2015, Stephonne released his first single “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, followed by “Unworthy” and several other singles throughout the years. He released his first full length album titled Caged Bird Sings Songs About Red Beard in 2018 and an EP titled Sis: Side A in 2020. He will be releasing the companion EP, Sis: Side B in Spring 2022. Stephonne is always working to push boundaries with his music and provide his listeners with new experiences audibly and visually.
Kyle Mullins
Kyle Mullins is a dance artist living and creating in Kansas City, MO and artistic director of his contemporary dance-theater project Cerca Trova and producer of Making Moves, a monthly dance series. Kyle’s work has been seen at Triskelion Arts, BCBeat, City in Motion Dance Theater, The University of Kansas, The Unicorn Theatre, Kansas City Public Theater, Cottey College, and the Lawrence Dance Intensive. Kyle’s film work has been commissioned by Powell Gardens, Tarble Arts Center, and presented with No Divide KC. Mullins danced in NYC for ten years before relocating home to Kansas City. In New York City, Mullins danced with the Second Avenue Dance Company, The Steps Repertory Ensemble, dre.dance, Nicholas Andre, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas and Dancers, and York Dance Works. He has has worked with Crystal Pite, Donald Byrd, Benoit-Swan Pouffer, Aszure Barton, Sean Curran, Camille A. Brown, Nathan Trice, Cherice Barton, Andrea Miller, Larry Keigwin, Shannon Gillen, Zvi Gotheiner, and Gregory Dolbashian. Since relocating back to Kansas City, he has had the pleasure to perform works by Mary Pat Henry, Gary Abbott, Shapiro and Smith, and Kevin Iyega Jeff with Wylliams Henry Contemporary Dance Company. As an arts administrator, Kyle is the Art Director for Kansas City’s Art in the Loop and serves as the Artist Services Program Coordinator for Mid-America Arts Alliance. He holds a MFA in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
About borderlandsKC
A new cutting-edge live + digital arts incubator, borderlandsKC presents adventurous projects expanding Kansas City's spectrum for artistic invention. Led by Jay Gilman, recently-returned KC native, Jay previously spent more than a decade as a curator, producer, and civic practice artist in Minneapolis and Philly.
