Sister Space

TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT!Tonight, everyone’s favorite power dance trio Little Stolen Moments perform three new dances inspired by Yoon Cho’s exhibit Nothing Lasts Forever, currently on view at Women & Their Work. If you like epic sexy spirit dancing at all you’ll hate yourself if you miss this! LSM + NLF is a must! Post-dance, LSM’s own Stanley Roy will be performing a few songs. Hugs afterward. It all starts tonight at 7pm at Women & Their Work.
P.S. It’s FREE.

In honor of our thirtieth year, we’ve been sifting through the archives here at Women & Their Work. Once in a while we like to post our fave images from the past–they’re way too good not to share. This week, jump in the wayback machine with us as we travel in time to the heady cusp of 1989-1990! The Berlin Wall was freshly toppled; protecting yourself was respecting yourself; Poison and Paula Abdul ruled the airwaves; the smell of Coty fragrance was in the air, and Women & Their Work put on some killer dance events.
How amazing is this? The pose, the heels, the lace, the office chair–doesn’t it sort of make you want to reach for a spritz of ex’cla•ma’tion?

Though we don’t know exactly who the top dancer is, we do know that his flat-top was looking regal, mustard was definitely his color and he seems to have been quite adept at vogueing. Nice royal blue/plum color palette there on his Ally Sheedy-esque dance partner.
The Urban Bush Women keep it cinched while waiting to take the stage at a 1989 elementary school performance.

Could anything be better than Lycra dance apparel in varying shades of red and hot pink in this Urban Bush Women promo shot? Probably not.
Urban Bush Women and Women & Their Work are both growing up–UBW celebrates their twenty-third anniversary this year! Since we can’t dig through their archives too, their website is the next best bet.

Thanks to everybody who came out to our opening reception for Donna Huanca’s new exhibit, Secret Museum of Mankind!

Donna completely transformed our space with found-fabric installations, lasers and golden eggs, magic crystals, animal bones, hieroglyphics and other mysterious offerings.

Setting up:

The reception featured a ritual performance complete with wandering spirit animal, incense, a fog machine, and drumming by members of Indian Jewelry.

These guys were hanging tough.

Fancy chandelier.

Magic flora, powerful circle.

Donna and her altar.

Spirit hugger.

Fuse Box 2008
A wide-open call for collaborative entries….

Refraction Arts is currently seeking artists interested in the process of collaboration to be paired (grouped) with other artists from all over the world to produce an original collaborative work to be featured at this year’s Fuse Box Festival in Austin, TX.  Five pairs or threesomes will be chosen to live together and create work together in the attempt to foster collaboration boundlessly and without borders. If selected, you will be provided with:

Airfare to and from Austin
Lodging
Publicity
Space to work
1 slot in the Fuse Box Festival to present/perform your work
One of the 5 teams will be awarded $5000

Who should submit:
DOCUMENTARIANS, CARTOONISTS, GRAFFITI ARTISTS, JOURNALIST, CREATIVE WRITERS, SCHOLARS, CURATORS, SOUND ARTISTS, PERFORMANCE ARTISTS, TEXTILE ARTISTS, PUPPETEERS, CHEFS, CRAFTSPEOPLE, PSYCHOGEOGRAPHERS, CARTOGRAPHERS, ARCHIVISTS, BOOK ARTISTS, PAINTERS, INTERVENTIONISTS, MAIL ARTISTS, FLUXISTS, GRAPHIC DESIGNERS, FURNITURE DESIGNERS, FASHION DESIGNERS, ARCHITECTS, URBAN DEVELOPERS, ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNERS, EDUCATORS, FILM MAKERS, MUSICIANS, ACTORS, VIDEO ARTISTS, SCULPTORS; SET DESIGNERS, DIRECTORS, MAPMAKERS.

How to submit: Please submit the following on a disc to the below address: resume, images of your work (5 high-resolution [300 DPI and app 5” X 7” jpeg] or a 5-minute non-edited clip), short description of your work, and a response to the following questions:

1. What is the best gift you have ever received and why?
2. How do you define the act of ‘play’? How is this reflected in your work?  Feel free to tell us about your process, how you work, ideas you’re cooking up, etc and how they relate to “play”.

Refraction Arts Project
c/o Ron Berry
400 B W. Alpine Rd
Austin, TX 78704

Dates
Submission deadline: December 31, 2007
Notification: January 15, 2008
Festival Dates: April 24-May 3

More about FUSE BOX:

Fuse Box 2008
April 24 – May 3

A confluence of theater, film, dance, visual art and music

@ various galleries and performance venues across Austin

This April 1000s of people will flock to Austin, TX as the fourth annual FUSE BOX Festival takes flight. We are assembling a dynamic lineup of some of the most vibrant and interesting artists from around the world as well as some of the boldest artistic voices from right here in Central Texas.  These are artists who are pushing us forward.  They are daredevils.  They are acrobats and thinkers.  They are painters and movers and writers–helping us remake and re-imagine the world as they challenge, entertain, and inspire.

Over the course of ten days, our streets, our backyards, our bridges and sidewalks will become a canvas for pioneering new work.  Our museums, galleries and performance venues will host stunning performances and installations.  Austin itself will act as both a peninsula to the larger global stage, and as a lens into contemporary life.

FUSE BOX is ten days of happenings, new experiments, screenings, happy hours, dance, music, performances and art–a celebration of the here and now.

FUSE BOX is about conversation. We want Minneapolis talking to New York talking to Topeka talking to Portland talking to Madrid talking to artists and audiences here in Central Texas.

FUSE BOX is about crossing boundaries. It’s about conversing and engaging with what we don’t know.  Theatergoers going to art openings, visual artists going to see dance, dancers going to film screenings, filmmakers going to see new musical performances, etc.  In short, FUSE BOX is a multi-track experience, much like the world in which we live.

FUSE BOX also offers a series of informal workshops as well as more rigorous training courses taught by master instructors.  It’s a chance to learn, to grow, and to plot new adventures.

We hope you can join us!

Amelia Winger-Bearsking performing On Que. So funny!

It’s been super crazy around here. So crazy that there had been no time for blog posts. Well things have calmed down and we’re back!

Artist extraordinaire, Jill Pangallo, performed this most excellent dance number at our Suddenly! Last Summer Party. It’s rad!