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Scratch Night
Thursday, March 7
Scratch Night is a multidisciplinary salon of works-in-progress from Kansas City’s most exciting generative performing artists. Help shape what’s new and what’s next on Kansas City’s stages by participating in our unique audience feedback framework.
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TONIGHT'S LINEUP |
Disintegration Alexis Borth & Óscar Trujillo Run time: approximately 40 minutes followed by an audience feedback interlude |
Sequins Before Noon Nan Turner & Company Run time: approximately 25 minutes followed by an audience feedback interlude |
Please feel free to stick around after the performance for another beverage and a mingle! |
Disintegration
About the piece: An expansion of an immersive movement performance presented at Scratch Night in February 2023, Disintegration explores what happens when our state of preparedness dissolves. Does something show up to replace it? What is lost or gained? Will our relationships shift? And what new choices arise when our readiness disintegrates?
Choreographers/Performers: Óscar Trujillo & Alexis Borth
Music: Celestial Spirits (Noise) (Under the Stars); Midnight, The Stars and You (Al Bowly & Ray Noble and His Orchestra); You’ve Been Talkin’ ‘Bout Me Baby (Donald Byrd); Caribou (Belle Chen); C Ethereal Cello Drone (Cielo Terra); Fever (La Lupe); Sori (Sophia Jani); Traces I (Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang); Pink Noise 285hz (Noise Foundation); Take Pills (Panda Bear). Editing: Alexis Borth
Alexis Borth is a dancer, choreographer, educator, GYROTONIC® / GYROKINESIS / yoga instructor, Charlotte Street Studio Resident and Director of KC Open Pro Class. Her career has been stationed in New York, San Francisco and beyond - highlighted credits include: Complexions Contemporary Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of San Francisco, and various independent projects and music videos. www.alexisborth.com
Óscar Trujillo is an embodiment practitioner in private practice and with The Embodiment Institute. Oscar has created original performance work with creative collectives Brillo and ADEO, and has collaborated with Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Organic Magnetics and more. www.oscarmtrujillo.com
Choreographers/Performers: Óscar Trujillo & Alexis Borth
Music: Celestial Spirits (Noise) (Under the Stars); Midnight, The Stars and You (Al Bowly & Ray Noble and His Orchestra); You’ve Been Talkin’ ‘Bout Me Baby (Donald Byrd); Caribou (Belle Chen); C Ethereal Cello Drone (Cielo Terra); Fever (La Lupe); Sori (Sophia Jani); Traces I (Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang); Pink Noise 285hz (Noise Foundation); Take Pills (Panda Bear). Editing: Alexis Borth
Alexis Borth is a dancer, choreographer, educator, GYROTONIC® / GYROKINESIS / yoga instructor, Charlotte Street Studio Resident and Director of KC Open Pro Class. Her career has been stationed in New York, San Francisco and beyond - highlighted credits include: Complexions Contemporary Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of San Francisco, and various independent projects and music videos. www.alexisborth.com
Óscar Trujillo is an embodiment practitioner in private practice and with The Embodiment Institute. Oscar has created original performance work with creative collectives Brillo and ADEO, and has collaborated with Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Organic Magnetics and more. www.oscarmtrujillo.com
Óscar & Alexis' questions for you:
- What emotion or reaction did you feel during and/or after witnessing/experiencing the piece?
- Which “pathway” or “timeline” spoke to you the most strongly and why?
- What image/moment stood out to you? (write/draw/explain how you wish)
- What's something else you want to tell us?
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'Sequins Before Noon'
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Featured performers: Jeramy Zimmerman, Óscar Trujillo, Breaka Dawn, Tracy Flowers, Morgan Fender, Danielle Anderson
About the piece: Part rock concert, part musical theatre, all ‘90’s figure skating. Featuring Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, Oksana Baiul, some celebrity guests like Scott Hamilton and Courtney Love, and more, this piece explores existentialism, friendship, murder... and your relationship with your mother.
About Nan: Nan Turner is a songwriter, musician, improviser/actor, and dancer. Sometimes she does these one at a time and sometimes all at once.After losing her mind with Meisner actor training in NYC in the late 90's, she fell into a Riotgrrrl-Antifolk-Punk-infused life of rock and roll, playing in the bands Bionic Finger, Pantsuit and Schwervon!. She spent a lot of time at Sidewalk Cafe on the Lower East Side of NYC watching her friends play hilarious and heartfelt songs, and learning how to craft her own quirky "but with meat at the center of it” tunes.Her band Schwervon! (with Matthew Roth, aka Major Matt Mason USA) got cruisin' in the early oughts and toured Europe and made albums for many years. In 2012 they moved from NYC to Kansas to be able to live more cheaply and tour the world MORE. Which they did hardcore style until 2018. Now they are more softcore style, in terms of scheduling -not necessarily their sound! Look, we should also mention that Nan dances. She choreographed dances for Underthrust (her crew of musician pals who also liked to dance) to the music of Kimya Dawson. Her dancing eventually found its way into tapdance improvs during poetry breaks with Schwervon! and also into her own music project, "Nan + The One Nite Stands" which blends theatrical poetry raps with dance moves. After being in KC for a few years, Nan decided to take an improv class. This lit a fire in her brain, burning down the charred remains of the difficult acting experience of her 20's. She trained at KCIC and Improv Shop in Kansas City, and you can often catch her improvising (musical and non-musical) at The Bird Theater in Kansas City.
About the piece: Part rock concert, part musical theatre, all ‘90’s figure skating. Featuring Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, Oksana Baiul, some celebrity guests like Scott Hamilton and Courtney Love, and more, this piece explores existentialism, friendship, murder... and your relationship with your mother.
About Nan: Nan Turner is a songwriter, musician, improviser/actor, and dancer. Sometimes she does these one at a time and sometimes all at once.After losing her mind with Meisner actor training in NYC in the late 90's, she fell into a Riotgrrrl-Antifolk-Punk-infused life of rock and roll, playing in the bands Bionic Finger, Pantsuit and Schwervon!. She spent a lot of time at Sidewalk Cafe on the Lower East Side of NYC watching her friends play hilarious and heartfelt songs, and learning how to craft her own quirky "but with meat at the center of it” tunes.Her band Schwervon! (with Matthew Roth, aka Major Matt Mason USA) got cruisin' in the early oughts and toured Europe and made albums for many years. In 2012 they moved from NYC to Kansas to be able to live more cheaply and tour the world MORE. Which they did hardcore style until 2018. Now they are more softcore style, in terms of scheduling -not necessarily their sound! Look, we should also mention that Nan dances. She choreographed dances for Underthrust (her crew of musician pals who also liked to dance) to the music of Kimya Dawson. Her dancing eventually found its way into tapdance improvs during poetry breaks with Schwervon! and also into her own music project, "Nan + The One Nite Stands" which blends theatrical poetry raps with dance moves. After being in KC for a few years, Nan decided to take an improv class. This lit a fire in her brain, burning down the charred remains of the difficult acting experience of her 20's. She trained at KCIC and Improv Shop in Kansas City, and you can often catch her improvising (musical and non-musical) at The Bird Theater in Kansas City.
Nan's questions for you:
- What stood out to you that you want to see more of?
- Do you feel Oksana's song (second shared tonight) needs movement? If so, describe or draw the types and style of movement you might imagine taking place during the song.
- This musical is set in the 1990s.
- Were you alive in the 1990's? (Yes/No)
- Did anything references or styles stand out to you specifically?
- Describe the piece in one or two words.
Lighting Designer & Event Technician: Shelbi Ardnt
Production Assistant: Shelby Marquis
Event Photographer: Vaughan Harrison, Seen Productions
Scratch Night Series Curator/Producer: Jay Gilman, borderlandsKC
Production Assistant: Shelby Marquis
Event Photographer: Vaughan Harrison, Seen Productions
Scratch Night Series Curator/Producer: Jay Gilman, borderlandsKC
About borderlandsKC
A new cutting-edge live + digital arts incubator, borderlandsKC presents adventurous projects that expand Kansas City's spectrum for artistic invention. borderlandsKC is Jay Gilman's producing entity. A recently-returned KC native, Jay spent more than a decade as a curator, producer, and civic practice artist in Minneapolis and Philly, including as Artistic Director of Minnesota Fringe where he funded and launched three new festivals (including the site-specific outdoor festival Beyond The Box and Minnesota FamilyFringe). Jay serves on Charlotte Street's Performing Arts Programming Committee; and has previously served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Missouri Arts Council, Minnesota State Arts Board, and other entities. As a director, some of his favorite projects include an actor-instrumented production of 'Spring Awakening'; a production in collaboration with Autistic designers and production advisors of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'; and a stripped down production of 'Peter & The Starcatcher'. www.jaygilman.com
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Our Thanks
The staff and board of Charlotte Street Foundation, including Amy Kligman, Patrick Alexander, Hope-Lian Vinson, Laura Blumenberg, and Amanda Middaugh; Will Porter; Kyle Mullins; Lynn Murray + Richard Gilman; the staff of Folk Alliance International; Stephanie Roberts + UMKC Theatre.
Scratch Night is made possible through Charlotte Street Foundation's Open Call program. Our gratitude to Charlotte Street's sponsors and funders for making this event and all of CSF's activities possible.
Scratch Night is made possible through Charlotte Street Foundation's Open Call program. Our gratitude to Charlotte Street's sponsors and funders for making this event and all of CSF's activities possible.
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