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Smile Capital USA
Fluid Festival, Auburn Bar, Calgary
October 15 & 17 at 9:30 pm
Come join kloetzel&co. at this year's Fluid Festival in Calgary, AB. Presented at the Auburn Bar as
part of the Physical Therapy Series, this new work toys with the paradoxes of small-town life in the USA.
Combining pop music, recorded text, lots of physical and facial tension, and tongue-in-cheek film, Kloetzel
digs into the (more and less) amusing hypocritical stances in the land of the "free." It takes as its basis
the 1948 ordinance by the Mayor of the City of Pocatello, ID, George Phillips, making it illegal not to smile
in Pocatello.
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The Gate City: Rail Town Reflections (2007)
Pocatello, ID
XX kloetzel&co. and the ISU Dance Program presented an evening of
site-specific performance as part of First Friday ArtWalk. With movement, music, spoken word, and film, the performances uncovered the intimate connections between Pocatello's history and the railroad. The piece included an installation in the Pocatello railroad depot as well as an interactive tour of the depot and one of Pocatello's oldest hotels, the Hotel Yellowstone.
Icarus Fried – A Film (2007)
XX The film version of Icarus Fried, a 3:30 minute short created at the Frazier
Egg Farm in Pocatello, ID, has enjoyed significant play this year. A collaboration between clarinetist
John Masserini, filmmaker Jeff Curtis, and kloetzel&co. it has been shown at the Idaho Moving Project
performance in Pocatello, ID, the Danca em Foco International Festival of Video & Dance in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema in Boulder, CO, and the DANSCAMDANSE Festival in Ghent, Belgium.
Icarus Fried (2006)
Victoria, BC
XX kloetzel&co. restage Icarus Fried for the Collision Symposium at the University of Victoria.
Icarus Fried and Caper (2006)
Seattle, WA
XXkloetzel&co. present Icarus Fried and Caper at the Northwest New Works Festival at On the Boards in Seattle. Offering a postmodern take on the modern obsession with climax, Icarus
Fried joins live clarinet, film, and dance as it toys with the
influence of the aural over the visual aesthetic. John Masserini and
Melanie Kloetzel join in a fickle feast of music and movement while
suggesting a fresh take on the possibilities for gender roles and
rules. For Caper, Chalie Livingston and Jeff Curtis join kloetzel&co. in a joyous romp with gumballs, splintering tables, and Eric Mandat's resolutely non-climactic score. Caper flirts with competition and perspective on a grand scale as music, dance, and film all combine in a bizarrely sexy circus world.
It's OK, no one's looking (2006)
Pocatello, ID
XXkloetzel&co. in collaboration with
clarinetist John Masserini, pianist Mark Neiwirth, tenor Geoffrey Friedley, poet
Greg Nicholl, and filmmaker Jeff Curtis present an evening of new works. Pairing
kloetzel&co. with live avant garde twentieth century music, textual collage,
and film work, It's OK, no one's looking tests the boundaries of collaboration and
convention: dancers careen off 50s-style tables, singers fly through the air while
vocalizing in varied tongues, and a clarinetist discovers pelvic flare as he works
through frantic trilling. The music includes John Cage's chance creation "Aria",
Eric Mandat's dramatic "Tricolor Capers," Emma Lou Diemer's "Tocata," and Joan
Tower's "Wings," among others.
In Place: Dancing through Downtown Riverside (2004)
Riverside, CA
XXkloetzel&co.'s site-specific project that consisted of a movement tour through downtown Riverside, CA. The evening's five parts explored Riverside's political, social, and architectural past and present through a tour of the Riverside promenade and the California Museum of Photography. As the audience rambled through the score of live music and dance, they experienced performers scampering up trees and spinning under the audience's feet, a walking tour that confronted the issues of homelessness in the land of suburbia, a witty critique on architectural history, and an uproarious auction of questionable art. Live music was provided by Jay Ammon and the Dumpster Orchestra.
Out of the Cool (2001)
Missoula, MT
XXNicole Wolcott and kloetzel&co., created an evening of ferocious movement and quirky characters in six unique pieces. Performed in a funky run-down theatre above a popular Missoula bar, Out of the Cool featured the premiere of Redress, Kloetzel's bizarre musing about Beethoven and shoes, as well as the restaging two of her most popular New York works, prepick and Shed.
Serious Rock (2000)
New York, NY
XXSerious Rock was an evening of live music and dance presented at the Clark Studio Theater in Lincoln Center. Celebrating the ridiculous and sublime moments of the performer's life, Serious Rock was performed by kloetzel&co. with music by the kloetzel&co. band. The evening premiered Sweet Betty, a signature piece for the company, as well as postpick. Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times called the evening "...a rare occurrence in dance." Serious Rock was also presented at Swarthmore College through the "Window on the Work" series.
Rock (1999)
Brooklyn, NY
XXRock was a free site-specific performance of live music and dance on the historic Carroll Street Bridge over the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY. With kloetzel&co.'s robust, athletic movement as well as the company's interactive, five-piece band, Rock acted as a community performance/celebration for the residents of the surrounding neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Pre- and post-performance activities highlighted the community's efforts to clean up the canal and included festive dancing by local residents to the live music. Rock was chosen as a "Today's Pick" in the New York Daily News.
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