The September Project

a gratitude performance for Barbara Dilley

September 12, 2015

The Dairy Center for the Arts

Boulder, Colorado

The September Project was an original work. A structured improvisation, both the music and movement were created by the ensemble. The ensemble was made of students and colleagues of Barbara Dilley.

Directed by: Molly Kampf

Created and Performed by: Mary Bevington, Joan Bruemmer- Holden, Katharine Kaufman, Mark Miller, Damaris Webb and Molly Kampf.

Costume Design by: Joan Anderson

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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19TH AT SEVEN O’CLOCK

IN THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ~ NAROPA UNIVERSITY

from the book

THIS VERY MOMENT: teaching thinking dancing

a reading and performance

from sections of THE RED SQUARE

by Barbara Dilley

with

Veronica Santoyo (director), Molly Kampf, Elizabeth Horab,

Vickie Curtis, Regan Halas (rogue photographer).

This presentation is fifth in a series of readings and performances using excerpts from my book THIS VERY MOMENT.

The book is both memoir and handbook weaving together

a context for classroom practices evolved here at Naropa University.

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My most recent work: Grasping Broken is about loss and fear. In the world I created people wear wire as clothing and speak broken, damaged, unfinished sentences. The songs incorporated are slow and high. On stage, three girls experience the death of another woman. As she dies, the woman becomes a spider. Watching this happen, the trio removes a part of their innocent selves to reveal inner memories of a place since gone. As the piece progresses, the spider gives the audience information about the three girls, whom each in turn communicate their stories using movement, text and sound. The final scene in the performance includes the movie Broken which is located on a farm near the mountains. The sound for the film happens live, on stage. The audience witnesses the protagonist fight for her life.