Dancers in rehearsal for unique new dance performance HERE // HEAR by choreographer Kris Wheeler and singer Ivory Smith, presented by Burien Actors Theatre from June 22 to 24. Photos courtesy Kris Wheeler.

Burien Actors Theatre presents HERE // HEAR, a unique full-evening length, new dance performance by choreographer Kris Wheeler and singer Ivory Smith, with performances from June 22 – 24. There is plenty of free on-site parking. “HERE // HEAR” With movement chorus and live singing, HERE // HEAR is designed to be an immersive experience into sounds that become music and movement impulses that become dance.  HERE // HEAR aims to activate the audience’s own states of listening and seeing. HERE // HEAR is a celebration of moving bodies and moving voices, stillness, silence, sound, and attentive response to change. PERFORMANCES:
  • Friday June 22 at 8 p.m.
  • Saturday, June 23 at 8 p.m.
  • Sunday June 24 at 2 p.m.
Burien Actors Theatre is located at 14501 4th Ave. S.W. in Burien. TICKETS Ticket prices range from $7 to $20. Student tickets are just $10. For tickets or other information, go to www.burienactorstheatre.org or call 206-242-5180. HERE // HEAR is sponsored by 4Culture and Pickled & Preserved. CHOREOGRAPHER AND PERFORMERS Director/choreographer Kris Wheeler was a soloist in the 1970s and 1980s with Seattle’s American Contemporary Dance Company (ACDC, directed by the legendary Joan Skinner), and Robert Davidson’s Aerial Ensemble. Kris taught contemporary dance, improvisation and composition, including Contact Improvisation, around the United States, in Europe and on the faculty of the University of Washington’s dance program. She trained in clinical psychology, and then at 50, returned to the studio to continue to make dance. Over the last three years Wheeler has been working with dancers in the exploration of specific improvisational dance practices. This work has become HERE // HEAR. Singer Ivory Smith is a Seat­tle-based com­poser, sound designer, pro­ducer and teacher. Ivory Smith has been musi­cal direc­tor or co-director for sev­eral acclaimed projects includ­ing Foot in Mouth, Lingo Productions and Ivory in Ice World. Her work has been show­cased at Bumbershoot, On the Boards and A Contemporary Theatre. She grew up study­ing piano, attended Cornish College of the Arts and grad­u­ated from Evergreen State College with a BA in Audio Engi­neer­ing and Non-Profit Busi­ness Man­age­ment. The breadth of her pro­fes­sional work is far reach­ing—from opera and jazz to build­ing and pro­gram­ming her own elec­tronic instru­ments. Featured dancers are Noelle Chun, Katherine Cook, Mary Margaret Moore, Calie Swedberg and Kris Wheeler. ]]>

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