VSA
Arts to Present "Five Foot Feat"
VSA arts of Minnesota
is pleased to announce that it will be bringing Five Foot Feat
from Santa Barbara, California to the Red Eye (15 W. 14th Street)
in Minneapolis for performances on Saturday, December 11th at 7:30
p.m. and Sunday, December 12th at 2:00 p.m. Five Foot Feat is a
dance theater performance created by Catherine Cole and Christopher
Pilafian.
Cole describes the work as follows:
I became disabled over three years ago when I lost my entire left
leg to cancer. As I adjusted to my new body circumstances, I became
interested in the public spectacle of disability. Going about on
crutches with one leg, I became a walking performance art piece,
with people stopping to stare or avoiding eye contact all together.
But whether people looked or didn't look, I was a performer, a
performer in a script I didn't write. So in creating Five Foot
Feat, I was interested in working with that spectacle, the energy
of people's visual interest in my body. I felt that by giving people
permission to look, and to look on my terms, we could move beyond
awkwardness to something more interesting.
Five Foot Feat uses
live music, spoken text and dance to focus on three characters,
each of whom faces some limitation or obstacle, and then undergoes
a transformation. For more information about the production,
go to www.fivefootfeat.com
Tickets for the performance are available through VSA arts of Minnesota
by phone (612-332-3888 ext. 4) or email at vsarts@bcmn.com. General
admission tickets are $18.00 for adults and $14.00 for students and
seniors. The Sunday afternoon performance will be audio described
for people who are blind or have low vision and ASL interpreted for
people who are deaf.
For more information: http://mn.vsarts.org.
