2015 · 60 min · Captions

Stripe Tease

Chris Schlichting

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About this performance

Crafting a deeply satisfying mix of patterns and set structures, large-scale spectacle and delicate intimacy, recurrence and surprise, Schlichting’s newest work Stripe Tease embraces and slyly subverts dance history. Schlichting creates a beautifully designed, meticulously constructed dance world combining movement, visual art, and music.

Stripe Tease collaborators include rock/pop guitarist Jeremy Ylvisaker (Andrew Bird) and his band Alpha Consumer (with Mike Lewis and JT Bates), whose repetition of musical phrasing is a perfect foil for Schlichting’s movement art. Also featuring work by Minnesota-based visual artist Jennifer Davis, whose collages and paintings strike a magical balance between childlike playfulness and dark yearnings.

“The world Schlichting reveals is full of clever kinetic asides, streamlined beauty, hints of mischief and thoughtful juxtapositions.” —Star Tribune

Filmed at the Salvage Vanguard Theater
Presented by the Fusebox Festival

About the artist

Chris Schlichting

Chris Schlichting is a Minnesota-based Choreographer and performer creating work that begins with movement impulses and then accumulate carefully measured layers of cultural sources and influences. He was named "Best Choreographer" in 2013 by City Pages for his work Matching Drapes, which also received two Sage Awards, including on for "Best Performance" and one for "Best Design". He is the first recipient of the American Dance Institute's (Rockville, MD) Commissioned Artist award, a new project that provides commissioning funds, developmental and production support for a new work from one U.S. based choreographer every year. He frequently collaborates with artists from a variety of disciplines, including Morgan Thorson, for performances in her works Faker and Heaven.
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