Photo By Ryan Jensen

Photo By Ryan Jensen   

Art of Memory
The Ontological-Hysterical Theater (July 2007) and 3LD Art & Technology Center, NYC (2009). By Company SoGoNo, conceived by Tanya Calamoneri, performed by Cassie Terman, Heather Harpham, Lisa Ramirez, and Tanya Calamoneri. Music: Miguel Frasconi, Set Design: Sean Breult, Lighting: Bruce Steinberg, Video: Ning Li. Four librarians trapped in a fantastical library search for an exit while creating elaborate physical games exploring memory and illusion. A dance/theater piece incorporating Butoh dance and Action theater, with texts inspired by Borges, Francis Yeats, the Bronte's, and Grimm's Fairytales. (see Press for reviews)

Photo By Ryan Jensen

Tiny Disasters
Studio 111 & CRS Tribute to Butoh Festival, NY (2006 & 2007). Performed by Cassie Terman and Tanya Calamoneri. Physical Improvisations using sound and language invoke a surreal and dreamlike landscape in which two women weave complex relationships between each other and different mythic time periods. Funny and dark, subtle and fiery.

Photo By Eric Koziol

Photo By Kfir Ziv

Blowing Steam
Symphony Space and Chelsea Art Museum, NY (2005). Performed with Keren Rosenbaum's Reflex Ensemble, a daring, thirty-five member, multi-national ensemble, brainchild of Israeli-born composer Keren Rosenbaum, that erases the boundaries between art, technology and live performance, with a unique inner logic and counterpoint between sound and vision.

Photo By Ian Winters

Citizen of Trees
Noh Space, San Francisco, CA (Jan-Feb 2004). Concieved and performed by Cassie Terman. Directed by Allen Willner, Set Design by Mary Lois Hare. Citizen of Trees is an allegory of safety and escape. Comedic and dark by turns, it exposes a map to freedom that is both unique to a pristine and primal world, and universal to the one we all inhabit. A dance of gestures sets the stage as innocence and violence morph into one another. A girl falls out of a boat and ends up alive on the sea floor. A ravaged man twists and breaks against the distinctions between desire and love. A woman flees an attacker only to be "saved" by being turned into a tree. She finds herself both trapped and released, and further required to offer her constantly changing testimony in a mysterious courtroom. (see Press for reviews)

The Duchess
By Eric Koziol and inkBoat. A film version of the performance work Cockroach, this film screened at Lincoln Center and the Getty (2001). Title role of the Duchess performed by Cassie Terman. Cockroach by Shinichi Momo Koga and inkBoat. San Francisco Butoh Dance Festival, Theater Artaud, CA and Schloss Broelin & Fabrik Potsdam, Germany (2001).

Photo By Eric Koziol

Ocean
Outdoor Site Specific Performance, Mendocino, CA (2000). With inkBoat.

Etiquette
With the company etiquette (Linda Carr, Mary Lois Hare, Cassie Terman), Performances took place 1998-2000 at Footworks, 848 Community Space, and ZEUM in California and at BMoCA in Colorado. Our trio used elaborate sets (boats, suitcases, 100 shoes), costumes, and music to create fully improvised evening length works that spoke to beauty, the surreal, and took a particularly odd and wild hilarity in the strange leanings of human behavior.

Photo By Mary Lois Hare