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Overflow
a dance for the camera created with filmmaker John Koch
5min 25sec
Screenings:
Premiere: Dance Film Project 2010, Minnesota Dance Film Festival, Presented by Cinema Revolution Society and The Southern Theater
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photo by John Koch
[click image to view the film]
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Pages
presented by 9x22 at the Bryant Lake Bowl
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photo by Charles Campbell
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Haven
a dance for the camera in collaboration with filmmaker, Ryan Philippi
Presented by Cinema Revolution Society and Intermedia Arts as part of Dance Film Project 2009
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photo by Ryan Philippi
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en masse
"...fascinating....can't stay unmoved....there's no denying the charisma of the crowd. A group this large is magic; there's no looking away." - mnartists.org
"Voskuil skillfully taps into...humanity's vulnerabilities as much as our strengths through simple demonstrations of conflict and cooperation." - Star Tribune
"...humanity at its worst...and its best..."en masse" left one with faith in one’s own and other’s humanity..." - minnpost.com
"...like a giant organism seeking a higher purpose" - dancemagazine.com
Commissioned by the Walker Art Center and The Southern Theater
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photo by Jim Smith
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throne/thrown
A dance film by Vanessa Voskuil and John Koch
Length: 8 min
Taking its impetus from WB Yeat's poem "The Second Coming," “throne/thrown” explores the search for the position in one's life by which to conduct one's authority over it.
Screenings:
Premiere: 2008 Dance Film Project, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis
2010 MNTV: TPT statewide public televsion broadcast
2011 MNTV: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2011 moves11: INTERSECTIONS, Liverpool, UK
Presented as part of the Cinema Revolution Dance Film Project 2008 |
photo by John Koch
[click image to view the film]
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Aperture
“…Costello veered from large gestures in repeating phrases to sharp staccato movements. The work mutated into a surreal, funeral tableaux with a blowing fan, blinding lights and sand pouring form the ceiling as Costello careered around the table like a dissolute Isadora Duncan.” - Star Tribune
Commissioned by Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater
Performed by co-artistic director Suzanne Costello
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photo by Paul Virtucio
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The Silents
Includes original music composition by Nick Lemme.
The Silents, dwells upon various facets of human experience emphasizing human beauty and fragility, both physical and spiritual. A major source of inspiration for the work was Rainer Maria Rilke's “Book of Hours.”
Support provided by Minnesota State Arts Board, the Moore Family Fund for the Arts of the Minneapolis Foundation and private funders
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photo by Paul Virtucio
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the Silents: for Derive
Includes original music composition by Ben Siems.
"...I was in another world....In Voskuil’s work, image leads sense."
– mspmag.com
"...I imagined your piece to be something the filmmaker David Lynch might make if he were working in a different medium..." – audience member.
Commissioned and Presented by Flaneur Productions
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Lunariaist
Lunariaist is a piece about a woman who is haunted by a need to always want more then what life is able give at that time.
Presented by Flaneur Productions
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Anatomy of Child's Play
Anatomy of Child's Play explores identity, suppressed desires, and the power of the subconscious.
“…a humorous montage of images and elements….Anatomy of Child's Play” mixes projected video, Mozart and Nat King Cole, platinum blond wigs, a skirt made of tea cups, an enormous fish tank, a whole lot of onions, and oh yes, a house cat. They say never act with animals or children, but Vanessa gets away with this as well.” - In My Humble Opinion
Support provided in part by the Moore Family Fund for the Arts of the Minneapolis Foundation, hosted by the University of Minnesota
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Aves
“….Holmseth aids Voskuil in a full range of movement, leaning precariously in a variety of directions at sharp angles, lifting her off the ground, and jerking her back suddenly at times when she reaches for the ground, and other fallen birds.” - In My Humble Opinion
Support provided in part by the Moore Family Fund for the Arts of the Minneapolis Foundation, hosted by the University of Minnesota
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In Kind Response
“…visually arresting….This work is playing with the most basic of theatrical elements - the difference between light and darkness, sound and silence, movement and stillness. Under these conditions, the simple act of breathing can fill the space and rivet attention.” - In My Humble Opinion
Support provided in part by the Moore Family Fund for the Arts of the Minneapolis Foundation, Hosted by the University of Minnesota
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We As Makers
We As Makers is inspired, in part, by Verdi's famous operatic chorus, “Va Pensiero.” The work explores the emotional qualities necessary for leadership.
"Visually stunning….Voskuil's piece, 'We as Makers,' occurs in perhaps the most fantastical site in the Twin Cities: the Mill City Museum's courtyard ruin….The performance begins with the seven dancers posed throughout the floor of the dirty, rock-strewn ruin. Their wonderful costumes of tattered linen tops and pants and swaths of tapestry-like fabric are in colors that echo that ruin's tan and gold brick walls and rusty-red girders. " - mnartists.org
Presented by the Minnesota Visible Fringe Festival
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Pilgrim
Pilgrim is an exhausted journey of one woman's attempts towards understanding. Influenced by the emotional and passionate writings of early women mystics who were often plague or graced with visions of the eternal.
Presented by the University of Minnesota and Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
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The Weight of Light
"…Vanessa Voskuil's 'The Weight of Light'…wants to explain modern love, love without children or money or families or marriage, the love of two people talking and touching. Voskuil throws everything in: her dancers hug each other while dangling from aerialists' silks, bark Barthes while sorting apples and oranges, and dance their need, their irritation, and their bodily affection to the courtly music of Geminiani and Vivaldi”. - mnartists.org
Presented by the Red Eye Theater and The Southern Theater
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Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point counters the increasingly growing incorporation of technology into our everyday lives.
Presented by The Red Eye Theater
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Should I Desire to Possess the Whole
Should I Desire to Possess the Whole explores counter parts freedom and necessity.
Presented by The Red Eye Theater
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Pending Circumstance
Pending Circumstance reflects on the moments that cause us to be still.
Presented by The Southern Theater |
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She is the Other
She Is the Other is an inquiry into what it means to be “feminine” in America's post sexual revolution.
Presented by The Red Eye Theater
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On Certainty
On Certainty is a dance-theater piece that explores a woman's dependency on the practices of “correct” societal conduct.
Presented by The Rogue Buddha Gallery
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