Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 5PM & 8PM
After a sold out four night run of Water in the Kettle at the Rhythmix Cultural Center in Alameda in February 2023, MoToR/dance is giving Bay Area audiences a chance to catch the much-celebrated evening-length production again this fall. MoToR/dance will occupy Manny's in San Francisco's Mission District for two pop-up performances for one evening only.
Water in the Kettle uses Artistic Director Evie Ladin's body music choreography (harmony singing, body percussion, rhythm dance) to illuminate the maddeningly recurrent struggles of modern women and the country, with intention, humor, and connective rhythm. We put water on to boil when we organize, commiserate, work, celebrate, refuel. The multigenerational ensemble-women raised by feminist mothers, still fighting the same fights-harmonizes over polyrhythmic body music singing, "I just might soak it up and some." Indeed, there will be water in the kettle to make signature hot drinks for audience members.
Ladin explains, "Appalachian culture (the roots of my training) contains the first American-born traditions, a true mix of Black, Brown and White, foundational to American culture." In a country built on slavery and genocide while professing equality, the old songs gain new interpretation. "Water in the Kettle is a volatile lament," says Ladin, "Decades after the civil rights and feminist movements, this backwards slide...we sing overlapping 'trouble all the time' songs, trouble of the heart, the mind, the gut, danced to an underlying 6/4 rhythm that came here from Africa." In America, they ask "What you gonna do with the baby-o? You tell me cause I don't know."
Layering rhythmic systems in hands, feet and body, adding three+part harmonies, MoToR/dance illustrates a collective consciousness, a precision requiring performers to listen intently to each other. From self-directed hum to blaring sarcasm, MoToR/dance tells choreographed stories with emotional impact.
$25 general admission; $40 angel; $15 students.
Presented by MoToR/DANCE.
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After a sold out four night run of Water in the Kettle at the Rhythmix Cultural Center in Alameda in February 2023, MoToR/dance is giving Bay Area audiences a chance to catch the much-celebrated evening-length production again this fall. MoToR/dance will occupy Manny's in San Francisco's Mission District for two pop-up performances for one evening only.
Water in the Kettle uses Artistic Director Evie Ladin's body music choreography (harmony singing, body percussion, rhythm dance) to illuminate the maddeningly recurrent struggles of modern women and the country, with intention, humor, and connective rhythm. We put water on to boil when we organize, commiserate, work, celebrate, refuel. The multigenerational ensemble-women raised by feminist mothers, still fighting the same fights-harmonizes over polyrhythmic body music singing, "I just might soak it up and some." Indeed, there will be water in the kettle to make signature hot drinks for audience members.
Ladin explains, "Appalachian culture (the roots of my training) contains the first American-born traditions, a true mix of Black, Brown and White, foundational to American culture." In a country built on slavery and genocide while professing equality, the old songs gain new interpretation. "Water in the Kettle is a volatile lament," says Ladin, "Decades after the civil rights and feminist movements, this backwards slide...we sing overlapping 'trouble all the time' songs, trouble of the heart, the mind, the gut, danced to an underlying 6/4 rhythm that came here from Africa." In America, they ask "What you gonna do with the baby-o? You tell me cause I don't know."
Layering rhythmic systems in hands, feet and body, adding three+part harmonies, MoToR/dance illustrates a collective consciousness, a precision requiring performers to listen intently to each other. From self-directed hum to blaring sarcasm, MoToR/dance tells choreographed stories with emotional impact.
$25 general admission; $40 angel; $15 students.
Presented by MoToR/DANCE.
Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 5PM & 8PM
After a sold out four night run of Water in the Kettle at the Rhythmix Cultural Center in Alameda in February 2023, MoToR/dance is giving Bay Area audiences a chance to catch the much-celebrated evening-length production again this fall. MoToR/dance will occupy Manny's in San Francisco's Mission District for two pop-up performances for one evening only.
Water in the Kettle uses Artistic Director Evie Ladin's body music choreography (harmony singing, body percussion, rhythm dance) to illuminate the maddeningly recurrent struggles of modern women and the country, with intention, humor, and connective rhythm. We put water on to boil when we organize, commiserate, work, celebrate, refuel. The multigenerational ensemble-women raised by feminist mothers, still fighting the same fights-harmonizes over polyrhythmic body music singing, "I just might soak it up and some." Indeed, there will be water in the kettle to make signature hot drinks for audience members.
Ladin explains, "Appalachian culture (the roots of my training) contains the first American-born traditions, a true mix of Black, Brown and White, foundational to American culture." In a country built on slavery and genocide while professing equality, the old songs gain new interpretation. "Water in the Kettle is a volatile lament," says Ladin, "Decades after the civil rights and feminist movements, this backwards slide...we sing overlapping 'trouble all the time' songs, trouble of the heart, the mind, the gut, danced to an underlying 6/4 rhythm that came here from Africa." In America, they ask "What you gonna do with the baby-o? You tell me cause I don't know."
Layering rhythmic systems in hands, feet and body, adding three+part harmonies, MoToR/dance illustrates a collective consciousness, a precision requiring performers to listen intently to each other. From self-directed hum to blaring sarcasm, MoToR/dance tells choreographed stories with emotional impact.
$25 general admission; $40 angel; $15 students.
Presented by MoToR/DANCE.
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After a sold out four night run of Water in the Kettle at the Rhythmix Cultural Center in Alameda in February 2023, MoToR/dance is giving Bay Area audiences a chance to catch the much-celebrated evening-length production again this fall. MoToR/dance will occupy Manny's in San Francisco's Mission District for two pop-up performances for one evening only.
Water in the Kettle uses Artistic Director Evie Ladin's body music choreography (harmony singing, body percussion, rhythm dance) to illuminate the maddeningly recurrent struggles of modern women and the country, with intention, humor, and connective rhythm. We put water on to boil when we organize, commiserate, work, celebrate, refuel. The multigenerational ensemble-women raised by feminist mothers, still fighting the same fights-harmonizes over polyrhythmic body music singing, "I just might soak it up and some." Indeed, there will be water in the kettle to make signature hot drinks for audience members.
Ladin explains, "Appalachian culture (the roots of my training) contains the first American-born traditions, a true mix of Black, Brown and White, foundational to American culture." In a country built on slavery and genocide while professing equality, the old songs gain new interpretation. "Water in the Kettle is a volatile lament," says Ladin, "Decades after the civil rights and feminist movements, this backwards slide...we sing overlapping 'trouble all the time' songs, trouble of the heart, the mind, the gut, danced to an underlying 6/4 rhythm that came here from Africa." In America, they ask "What you gonna do with the baby-o? You tell me cause I don't know."
Layering rhythmic systems in hands, feet and body, adding three+part harmonies, MoToR/dance illustrates a collective consciousness, a precision requiring performers to listen intently to each other. From self-directed hum to blaring sarcasm, MoToR/dance tells choreographed stories with emotional impact.
$25 general admission; $40 angel; $15 students.
Presented by MoToR/DANCE.
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