February 16 Guests

Body of Knowledge, by Karl Frost/Body Research, sits in the territory between somatic psychology, experimental theatre and human ecology. The performance begins with the audience participating in a behavioral experiment looking at human interaction. As the experiment deconstructs, the audience freely wanders the stage with the performers exploring the relationship of their bodies, emotions, and minds to each other and the environment in an audio and video installation.

KARL FROST is currently pursuing an MFA in choreography at UC Davis as well as graduate level studies in ecology and anthropology.  He is the director of Body Research Physical Theater. His work varies between the purely kinesthetic and the psychological, between works for the stage and interactive performance works inviting audience members into greater degrees of agency in performance and life. Karl has been pursuing interdisciplinary performance work since the late 1980s and is recognized internationally as a leading teacher and innovator in the world of contact improvisation. Since 1997, Karl has directed the Dancing Wilderness Project, an ongoing laboratory into the interrelationships among wilderness experience, body-based creative process, and how we choose to live our lives.

ZAP MCCONNELL has been working in the field of movement/performance/site-specific/installation work and teaching since 1995. Using her skills in community organization, visual arts as well as dance and direct environmental activism, she has traveled the Americas performing, leading workshops and encouraging sustainable action. A long time directing member of Zen Monkey Project and director of her new group, At Hand Productions, Zap has intersected and worked with Karl Frost many times over the years.

AMBER CONE is a back woods mountain woman from the redneck-hippie tradition who loves making art out of bones, lichen and rusty metal.  Her penchant for scavenging and gleaning are complimented by her addictions to swimming in wild waters, climbing big hills, traveling to far places and investigating alternative concepts of movement and performance.  From that background she invented the Chainsaw Girls Society for the Demystification of Power Tools with the idea of empowering people to consume less and create more.

KEVIN DOCKERY eats, sleeps, runs, climbs on things, does feldenkrais, went to school, finished going to school, does some contact improvisation, dances, and studies performance.