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49 Days: Women Who Count
DONNA STERNBERG & DANCERS presents "49 Days: Women Who Count", a collaboration with visual/installation artist DONI SILVER SIMONS. The piece incorporates 42 female performers and seven speakers, a 49 channel sound installation, an installation documenting the creation of the work and a post-performance discussion by the collaborators. The work explores time, memory and counting as well as the role of ritual and cultural identity. The inspiration for the work is the Omer, a 7-week Jewish counting ritual characterized by a daily oral tally. Counting is universal, being conscious of time and marking its passage is common to mankind through the celebration of birthday, anniversaries and holidays. We create calendars and mark off days; we leave our marks on the world and on each other. Women serve as the keepers of time, the ones who count. Each performer symbolizes one day and as the performance progresses more performers are moving simultaneously, overlapping one another. Similarly the sound builds, filling the space. Rhythms begin to echo heartbeats creating a cacophony of sound. The piece builds to an overlapping of 49 voices and 42 movements occurring simultaneously as time becomes past and present. Memory coexists with the present, influencing how the present is perceived and experienced. "49 Days: Women Who Count" creates a ritual of marking time.
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$20 general admission, $17 students/seniors.
Tickets will be available at the door for $25 general admission and $20 students/seniors
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LocationArena 1 Gallery in the Santa Monica airport (View)
3026 Airport Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90405
United States
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