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Vasilas' innovative approach to making multimedia work strives to give the dancer the ability to simultaneously paint the space with both imagery and movement. She has worked with Cathy Weis, Bessie Award winning video dance artist, Dawn Stopiello, choreographer of Multimedia Dance Company Troika Ranch, and Kristin Marting, artistic director of Here Arts Center. In 2005 Vasilas was awarded a yearlong residency at Performance Space 122 as one of New York City's new leading artists.
Browse below to view Vasilas' multimedia dance work:
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Set in the contemporary age of information, FusionFEED is a multimedia dance piece that fuses sculpture, video, original music and dance. Created and directed by Sarah Vasilas and Leonardo Smith, FusionFEED delves into the question, “What feeds us?” Through the use of live, improvisational, and set media, it explores the visceral responses people have to their environment, society, relationships and imagination. Presented by Performance Space 122, FusionFEED was part of the New Stuff Series.
Performance Space 122 / CBGB's Gallery - New York City, NY |
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Converge is a multimedia production which combines several vignettes, bringing to life the artist's video concepts, choreography, costumes, sculptures and vocal scores, along with original music by Chelsea Snider, Steven Orsack and Original Nature . Vasilas collaborated with moving image artist, Alex Usatine, to create sculpture specific video that is projected onto static and moving set pieces/costumes and dancers, giving them the super real appearance of being brought to life.
Greer Garson Theater - Sante Fe, NM |
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"Toward Within" is an underwater dance video set to a multi-channel stream of spoken word and original music written by Brennan Murphy and Sarah Vasilas. The underwater dance video is projected on five screens that are presented in a circular environment. The installation contrasts fear and comfort, chaos and peace, and suggests that true solace dwells within us.
Greer Garson Theater - Sante Fe, NM |
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O' Earthly Gods is a duet in which two dancers are bound together in a symbiotic relationship by multiple web like strands. The webs both restrict and support the movements of each dancer. This piece has been performed at The Weckesser Theater in Santa Fe, and in various NYC festivals (i.e. Jennifer Muller Hatch series, 6 Moments of Dance at University Settlement).
University Settlement, Muller Studios - New York City, NY |
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Marked By Spirit is a video dance composition that combines dance, vocal harmony and video projection on attachable body screens. The piece explores how an individual in contemporary society is marked by the images she witnesses and confronts in her surrounding environment.
Performance Space 122 / CBGB's Gallery - New York City, NY |
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"Slave to The System" is a performance art installation that explores the concept of being bound by time and constricted by Bureaucracy.
CSF Gallery, Sante Fe, NM |
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"Egress"
Egress is a gallery specific performance art installation resembling the unveiling of Afghani woman. This piece won the women's art award.
CSF Gallery, Sante Fe, NM |
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