Double-Edge Dance

FAULT LINES was performed in July, 2007 at the Ohio Theatre at PlayhouseSquare as part of Igenuity 2007.

Fault Lines is a an evening-length multimedia work of vignettes connecting diverse vantage points on the core theme: fault lines.  Breaking points, rifts and reconfigurations are metaphors underlying these collaborations. This project features artists Kora Radella (choreographer/dancer),

Julie Brodie (choreographer/dancer), Ross Feller (composer/saxophonist). Rebecca Cross (textile artist), Claudia Esslinger (video artist), and Marcella Hackbardt (photographer).

"Radius of Rupture" from Fault Lines 

Photograph by Lily Moore-Coll

 "Mired" from Fault Lines

photograph by Lily Moore-Coll

 "Reverse Fault" from Fault Lines

"Reverse Fault" from Fault Lines

Review of Fault Lines

Big [Box]: Fault Lines @ CPT 2/9/07

 "Wicked good collaboration: Big [Box] this year has been all about artists making magic together. Double-Edge Dance's multimedia performance was most memorable in how their brainy-strange core artists put together new music, dance, video, and fiber art. Rebecca Cross's shape-shifting fabric in Crevasse made spooky transformations from huge cocoon to mountain to unearthy figures to ghostly veils. Claudia Esslinger's Warhol-slow video Skree, of a sleeping woman's face cupped by a demon's hand, was haunting. And dancer/choreographers Julie Brodie and Kora Radella's "I dare you" pas de deux of intimacy and retreat in Reverse Fault was made even better by composer Ross Feller's bass, sax, and water sounds."

 Choreographers Julie Brodie

and Kora Radella

Photo by Marcella Hackbardt 

ARTISTS' BIOS

Rebecca Cross is a textile artist.  Recent forays into shibori tying, dyeing and shape-resist techniques, primarily in silk, coupled with nuno-felting with wool on silk, continue to develop reflections on and expressions of memory. These processes provide a rich metaphor for the ways in which life experiences create multiple palimpsests as one proceeds forward in time, while simultaneously spiraling back into memory. See www.rebeccastextiles.com

Claudia Esslinger is a media installation artist who has also  collaborated with composers and performers creating live video/  chamber music projects that have been performed internationally. She  is the recipient of six Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships and a New Forms Regional Grant. This spring she was an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Originally from New York, she now teaches video art at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. See art.kenyon.edu/studioart/facultypages/esslinger/esslingerart.htm

Marcella Hackbardt teaches art and photography as an Associate Professor at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.  She received an M.F.A. in Studio Art from the University of New
Mexico in 2000, and exhibits her work nationally.  Working with both film and
digital technologies, her work addresses themes of home, identity and society. See art.kenyon.edu/hackbardt/index.html

Balinda Craig-Quijada is an Associate Professor of Dance at Kenyon College where she teaches contemporary modern dance, history, composition and ballet.  She received an MFA in Choreography from The Ohio State University, where she was on the faculty from 1998-2000. She is the author of the book Dance for Fun!, a children’s introduction to dance. Craig-Quijada is director of BCQ Dance, a pick-up company that has performed in Seattle, San Francisco, Columbus, and Chicago. Craig-Quijada is East-Central Regional Director for the American College Dance Festival where she has been on the Board for five years. She will be living in New York City during her upcoming sabbatical and is thrilled to be dancing with her esteemed colleagues and friends- Julie and Kora.