Meridian Dance is proud to present the fantastically smart, original and witty Catherine (Kat) Galasso as the latest choreographer creating world premiere work at the Meridian Gallery.  Lindsay Levesque and I curated this evening, and will participate in a Q&A after the show.  We began curating and producing the gallery’s latest performance program, Meridian Dance, early last year and have since presented three site-specific premiere dance works.

January 28 & 29
7:30pm
Meridian Gallery
535 Powell Street, SF
$10-20
Tickets/Info (this is a limited capacity event, so get your tickets early!)

Kat has choreographed a dance event where audience mingles with performer in a provocative and humorous  performance that spans the three-floor Victorian mansion of the Meridian Gallery.  Memorandum of Understanding: Your Butt is Covered is an evening of site-specific dance that responds to the current exhibition Speak Memory. The Meridian Gallery has a long reputation of programming cutting-edge music, film, and dance events.

While considering group memory as memorandums, Kat artfully juxtaposes the formal with the vernacular. A master of humor, Memorandum of Understanding takes on the accountability and self-protection in a world where relationships often remain undefined.  The work draws inspiration from Speak, Memory – from large-scale drawings of gigantic monads, to abstracted video narratives, to a melancholic video meditation on empty, haunted spaces.   Speak, Memory is an exhibition of drawings, film, and projection by Bay Area artists Ruth Eckland, Heike Liss, and Vera Kachouh. Through their work, the three artists explore the ability of art to contain or construct personal or collective memory.

The Meridian Gallery is a non-profit performance and exhibition space committed to increasing social, philosophical and spiritual change among previously isolated individuals and communities. The gallery assumes a tangible responsibility to explore issues and make spaces where youth and adults can access experientially a widening of the possible. The Meridian Gallery has been curating and hosting visual art, music, film, poetry, and dance events since 1989.


Also!, Kat is keeping a blog for the piece’s development.

Oh, and if you are interested in volunteering, or getting more information, contact dance@meridiangallery.org.