Burnish (Magenta #08)

Burnish (Magenta #08) renders the magical phenomenon of magenta into live performance.

Production/Research Residency at UMD//Formal Work-In-Progress

Performers: Anna Adams Stark, Laurel Snyder, Kaitlin Fox, Marion Spencer, Candace Scarborough and Kendra Portier. Plus, Jasmine Hearn (not shown in this run).
Music: Adam Crawley
Lighting: Chris Brusberg
Design and Production by MFA Candidates in Design at UMD: Kiana Vincenty (Costume) and Alex Shiryaev (Set)

Burnish is supported (in part) through the Summer Dance Residency Festival at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Emory University and Bates Dance Festival.

The research of Dorothy G. Madden Professor of Dance, Maura Keefe, Ph.D., about women choreographers led to the support of the creation of this work.

Burnish (Magenta #08) by BANDportier renders the magical phenomenon of magenta into live performance. Unlike other colors, magenta does not have a wavelength and is only perceived as such because of the absence of green waves of light. In this way, magenta is a metaphor for what is experienced through absence. In this piece, a cast of six performers become swathes of color vibrating and spilling across the stage. Wild movement, complex patterns and expressive rhythm sharpen into something unnerving, boldly feminine and poetic. Magenta becomes a vibrant articulation of bodies moving with velocity and tenderness.

Recorded at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Burnish (Magenta #08) from Kendra Portier BANDportier on Vimeo.