Welcome to IMAGOmoves
Yolande Snaith is a choreographer, performer, dance theatre director and educator.
IMAGOmoves serves as an artistic umbrella for collaborative projects with other artists; dancers, composers, musicians, designers, visual artists and film makers. IMAGOmoves is committed to creating works that cross disciplines, media and boundaries, to foster synthesis between the artistic languages of movement, visual imagery, text, music and sound. more about us >>
Upcoming Shows:
One Hundred Feet: a solo dance theatre performance
One Hundred Feet is a multimedia collaboration between performer, choreographer and designer Yolande Snaith, Video artist Natalia Valerdi, sound designer Nick Drashner and lighting designer Wen-Ling Liao.
50 pairs of shoes in a snow white space evoke the mysterious presence of 50 seminal women who left their distinctive footprints. Dancing and talking to herself, the mundane, the divine, the real, the imagined, and the impossible, Yolande Snaith negotiates past, present, and future existences. " I used to be Snow White," she says. "I am incapable of conceiving infinity," she thinks. "Forever is composed of nows," she feels. She has a surrealist taste for quotations and an absurd fascination with gesture. She has an obsession with shoes. She likes to dress up and strives to strip down. She dwells in possibility.
This new work explores a constantly shifting persona, a search for the self through the other, a journey through the resonance of past idols and extraordinary minds, from Joan of Arc to Gertrude Stein to Marilyn Monroe to Pina Bausch. Through their own words and images, the solo performer re-inhabits, re-imagines, and re-animates their passions, humor, visions, and poetry.
Watch the trailer of One Hundred Feet:
When:
UCSD Theatre and Dance "Dance Series"presents: One Hundred Feet
Friday, May 3 & Saturday, May 4, 2013 @ 8:00pm
Where:
UCSD Wagner Dance Building
Directions:http://theatre.ucsd.edu/places/parking.html
Tickets at the door (cash or cheque only):
Students $10; Faculty/Staff/Seniors (65+) $15; General $20
Reservations by email:
ysnaith@ucsd.edu
See photos of One Hundred Feet:
http://www.pbase.com/timrichards/snaith012
Recent work:
2010 - 2011:
Ruins True: Yolande Snaith performed and choreographed in collaboration with theatre director Gabor Tompa, co-performer/choreographers Liam Clancy and Mary Reich, composer Shahrokh Yadegari, and scenic/projection designer Ian Wallace. Inspired by the work of Samuel Beckett, this dance theatre production was previewed at SUSHI Visual and Performing Arts, San Diego 2010, and toured to the INTERFERENCES international theatre festival, Cluj, Romania in December 2010, Romania and Budapest March 2011, and the Avignon festival, France, July 2011.
photos:http://www.pbase.com/timrichards/ruins
2009:
iMan premiered at SUSHI Visual and Performing Arts, San Diego, as a double bill with GARDEN OF DEADLY SOUND, April 2009.
Press:
"This is the show we've been waiting for since Snaith, a leading artist in her native Britain, moved to San Diego in 2002.......iMan, inspired by Snaith's observations of animals in Africa, creates marvelous species, part human and part creature."Janice Steinberg, San Diego Union Tribune
"iMan is a well-designed piece with a delicious cast that merges Snaith's real observations of animals in Africa with human behavior. Dressed in various animal prints and clunky high heels and boots, ten dancers appear as lazy socialites on safari with odd expressions right out of Fredorico's films. There's an air of snobbery as they size each other up and clomp about in their ridiculous shoes. The fascination of the piece is the way dancers embrace the locomotion of big cats, giraffes and other grand animals." Kris Eitland, sandiego.com
"Snaith offers the pleasures of deeply explored ideas and a rich movement lexicon" Janice Steinberg, San Diego Union Tribune
"This full evening program is also edgy and layered, and she's assembled some of San Diego's favorite dancers" Kris Eitland sandiego.com
iMan is a multi-media dance theatre collaboration, integrating projection and visual design, sound, choreography and performance into a humorous and richly layered exploration of human movement and how this resonates with the animal world. Social activities and behavioral patterns evolve into peculiar rituals and dances that are strangely observed by the eyes of all-knowing animals in another realm of being. Saturated with ominous sounds and images, the work is inspired by Yolande’s experiences in Africa with animals in their natural habitat.
Concept and Direction: Yolande Snaith
Choreography: Yolande Snaith in collaboration with the dancers
Lighting Projection Designer: Thomas Ontiveros
Set design: Colin McGurK
Costume Design: Yolande Snaith
Composer: Stephen Kent
Dancers: Eric Geiger, Greg Lane, Deven P Brawley, Tonnie Sammartano, Elizabeth Swallow, Alison D Smith, Rebecca Bruno, Alicia Peterson, Raffaella Judd, John Diaz.
Stage Manager: Anjee Nero.
Garden of Deadly Sound is an unexpected twist on the characters of Maria Von Trapp from The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins. It explores the archetypal nanny who protects the children from dangers both real and imagined.Visit the web page for Garden off Deadly Sound for more details.
www.imagomoves.com/performances/imagomoves/GardenOfDeadlySound/
Concept and Direction: Yolande Snaith
Choreography: Yolande Snaith with Elizabeth Swallow
Performers: Elizabeth Swallow and Rebecca Bruno
Set and Costume Design: Yolande Snaith
Lighting Projection Designer: Thomas Ontiveros
Composers: David Coulter and Jean-Jacques Palix
Stage Manager: Anjee Nero