Pause/Play/Scrub

pener this weekend when veteran Island movement artist/choreographer Karen Nelson and friends celebrate the experience of embodiment. The Blue Heron walls will come down for this performance featuring some of the regions top names in movement and performance including: dancer/choreographers Kris Wheeler and Lila Hurwitz (both of Seattle), visual installation artist Susan Gladstone (Portland), percussionist John Dancey (Vashon) and more.

For these dancers, familiar territory is sensory awareness, ease of motion, dynamic expression and perceptual improvisation. They make real-time choreographic choices informed by the performance in progress, other players and objects in the playing space. Dancers partner each other during the improvisation as naturally as wind in the trees. Rising out of and falling into the floor, they enhance and amplify the simple spirals inherent in human movement. "Process is the product; this work invites people to step back in the process of being," adds Nelson. Pause/Play/Scrub takes place Saturday, Oct. 1, 7:30 pm, at the Blue Heron. Tickets: $12/$15 are available at the door, Heron’s Nest, Books by the Way or Vashon Book Shop.