A Matter of Heart — Live Performance with the Zest Collective
Zest Collective’s premiere of A Matter of Heart — a collaboration of art, dance, and music responding to themes of entity, spirit, and love — with visual artist Brian Michael Reed and the electronic duo Pax Humana (Brian Lindgren & Samir Zarif), choreographed by Gentry Isaiah George. February 21, 2015, with performances at 6:30 and 8:00 PM.
The event included a gallery hour with the original music, a Q&A on the creative process, the live dance premiere with an improvised score, and a DJ set by Pax Humana.
The dance was a 20–25 minute abstract piece developed in silence — a story of love and love lost with a ritual feel, featuring dancers partially covered in gold leaf and clay, set among Brian Reed’s sculptures. The improvised live score (viola/violin and saxophone) was atmospheric and without set tempo or melody, following the Merce Cunningham approach of developing music and dance independently.
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A Matter of Heart [EP] by Pax Humana
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