Completed Pit Painting with the Blue Sky project. After the dances posted below, we went into the dried paint spatters and created this mural and floor drawing. Click for larger.
This project was another iteration of our dance-painting spectacle, this time done with a professional dancer. The music is the Assassin's Tango, from the movie Mr & Mrs Smith. Unfortunately, the female dancer had a last minute conflict, so this is a one-man tango. Working with local youth from Dayton, OH, we choreographed a dance where paint was poured and shot from above on the dancer below. Later we will turn the spatters and spills from this project into a finished wall and floor painting. The piece is at once a dance, a performance, a painting and an installation. Stop motion animation courtesy of Lisa Nonken.
I've been in Ohio for two weeks now, and have begun collaborating with the youth and with other resident artists on painting and installation. Yesterday I organized with another resident artist, a dancer/choreographer/videographer, and his group of youth participants, to create an experimental dance and painting spectacle. We spent the day at the Excelsior building in the Oregon District of Dayton, OH, and poured and shot watered down latex house paint into a 15 foot pit with dancers below. Imagine 25 or so high schoolers, gallons of paint, super-soakers, red bandanas and white workman suits, a giant empty building, and a Jay-Z soundtrack. Above is a stop motion animation made by the group of one of the other resident artists, Lisa Nonken.