featured artists
Remember the Rhythm of Life.
BQdanza
Circus Contraption
Leonard Forsman
Lelavision
The Suquamish Canoe Family
Trimpin
BQdanza explores the mystery and magic of everyday life using modern dance. Ecuadorian Artistic Director Carla Barragán leads BQdanza in a dance style that is an eclectic combination of the postmodernist North American and Latin American currents. She creates characters and movement from human beings' emotions, creating texture and unfolding a form of visual art that uses the full stage as a canvas.
BQdanza will perform during Thursday's Opening Reception.
Photo by Ron Wurzer
Founded in 1998, Circus Contraption is a nonprofit collective of more than a dozen physical performers, including aerialists, stilt-walkers, and musicians. The collective strives to create striking, unique theatrical works rooted in circus arts. Performances feature live, original music by the Circus Contraption Band, which describes itself as "quirky-jerky loony-croony.
Circus Contraption will perform during Thursday's Opening Reception.
Photo by John Cornicello
Leonard Forsman has served as chairman of the 900-member Suquamish Tribe since 2005. Formerly the director of the Suquamish Museum, Leonard has worked as an archaeologist for a private consulting firm. Leonard grew up in Suquamish on the Port Madison Indian Reservation and continues to live there. He served as Suquamish tribal council secretary from 1987–2002. Leonard is a member of the Suquamish Canoe Family and pulls on the tribal canoe each year.
Leonard Forsman will give a tribal blessing before Thursday's Opening General Session.
Lelavision founders Leah Mann and Ela Lamblin work with a synthesis of form, space, movement, and music in a unique collaboration. Lamblin's musical instrument/sculptures are meant not only to be viewed, but to be sounded and intimately experimented with. Mann's work pulls from many ethnic and technical genres but is centered in the exploration of art as spiritual journey and social justice tool. Lelavision has toured their hybrid genre of performance, coined Physical Music, around the globe.
Lelavision will perform before Friday's Keynote Lecture.
Photo courtesy of artist
The Suquamish Canoe Family are a group of elders, adults, and youth from the Port Madison Indian Reservation in Kitsap County, Wash. They perform traditional songs and dances practicing the traditions of their ancestors. The group has a repertoire of powerful songs and performances inspired by travels during the annual intertribal canoe journey, the teachings of the elders, and participation in traditional ceremonies. They have performed at the National Museum of the American Indian and in venues in Washington state.
The Suquamish Canoe Family will perform before Thursday’s Opening General Session.
Photo by Angela Flemming
Trimpin is a kinetic sculptor, sound artist, musician, and composer. Most of his artwork integrates sculpture and music. He was the recipient of a 1997 MacArthur Genius Award and a 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship. Trimpin’s work has been exhibited in museums and all over the world as public artwork. In July 2005, several museums in Washington state engaged in a year-long survey of his work, with installations and/or performances occurring throughout the Northwest. A full-length documentary about Trimpin's life and work has recently been released.
Trimpin will perform before Saturday's Closing General Session.
Photo by Lara Swimmer©