SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 5:00 PM
FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE (ECO-CIRCUS)
PELE BAUCH (DANCE/PERFORMANCE)

Farm Arts Collective, El Viento was developed with performers, designers, stilt-walkers, and singers, explores the immigrant experience of crossing borders, leaving hardship, and building a new life. Using broad humor and heart-felt text, El Viento ends on a positive and beautiful note. Farm Arts Collective productions are spectacular indoor and outdoor works performed at conferences, festivals and parades in the Catskills Region of NY and PA, and New York City. Our productions address concepts of conservation, social justice, the human condition, and contemporary issues. Our artistic work strives to achieve thought-provoking experiences that inspire conversation and action. www.farmartscollective.org. Farm Arts Collective Ensemble: Tannis Kowalchuk, Director; Jess Beveridge, Production Manager. Caroline Bailie, Melissa Bell, Raina Bowers, Michael Chojnicki, Rebekah Creshkoff, Greg Erickson, Rima Fand, Eric Feinblatt, Annie Hat, Daniel Lendzien, Erica Madden, Manon Manavit, Adrianne Picciano, John Roth, Doug Rogers, Robert Skotch, Jon Jon Thomas. Costumes: Sue Currier. Co-produced with NACL Theatre. Not all members appear in all shows.

Pele Bauch, A.K.A. Ka Inoa is a montage of supple movement, vivid characters, and personal story, woven together with rolls of red ribbon. Pele Bauch mines her experiences as a multiracial New Yorker with Hawaiian ancestry who carries the weight of being named after Hawaii’s most significant and beloved deity. This interdisciplinary performance unpacks our attachment to cultural identity and pushes it against the needs of personal identity. Ka inoa is Hawaiian for the name, the namesake, the name of a chant or song, and an affectionate term for relatives not related by blood. Pele Bauch is a choreographer/director who explores the oddities of human nature through abstraction, visual metaphor, and physical expression. Combining dance with visual objects/set design and theater, her work has been selected for presentation at NYC venues including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Chocolate Factory, Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, HERE's TALR and the Best of TALR, Dixon Place, and BAX. She has received residencies from The Joyce Theater Foundation, Dance Theater Workshop, Chocolate Factory, and 92Y Harkness Dance Center. www.pelebauch.org