Excerpts from: (total running time: 10 min. 19 sec) Invitation to a Beheading (based on Alice in Wonderland) Violent Dwarf Productions: Tanya Calamoneri, Krista DeNio, Allen Willner Co-Choreographer, Producer, Performer role: The Duchess 1999 7pm Rumour Directed by Angus Balbernie dancer/ performer excerpt from: Venue 9 performance space, San Francisco 1999 Maybe Grief is a Good Bird Flying Low Jo Kreiter & Flyaway Productions flyawayproductions.com performance excerpt from: SOMarts, San Francisco; also performed at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts aerial and apparatus based dance dancer/ performer 2001 What if you watch my confession? Created & Performed by: Krista DeNio & Rachael Lincoln performance excerpts from: ODC Theater; performed: multiple venues, San Francisco, CA 2001 Heaven's Radio inkboat / violent dwarf productions Directed by Tanya Calamoneri & Allen Wilner performance excerpt from: Venue 9 performance space, San Francisco co-creator, performer role: orphan 2001 Flight W-2: Emergency Exodus Conceived and Directed by Krista DeNio CELLspace, San Francisco 2000 Written by: Susan Maxwell and Krista DeNio Choreography: Tanya Calamoneri/ K. DeNio Sound and Light Design: Allen Willner Video Design: Francine Cavanaugh Photographic Installation: Marnie McCurdy, Grant Faulkner, Abby Tuttle, Andre Dekleva, Katie Krantz Set and Installation Design: Kezia Zichichi/ K. DeNio Ensemble: Captain: Victoria McNichol Kelly Flight Attendants: Dorothy Henning, Cinzia Sperou-Gloekler Sane: Kezia Zichichi Birds: Tanya Calamoneri, Mair Culbreth, Marnie McCurdy Created almost exactly one year preceding the historic events of 9/11/2001, no one predicted just how foreshadowing this piece of dance-theater would be. Flight W-2 is a multi-media excursion into the microcosmic BUBBLE of a commercial airplane flight. Through dance, theater, live/original music and sound, video, photography, and a set/installation housed in the shells of actual airplanes, the piece seeks to investigate the consumer-based and technologically-driven realities we find ourselves living in, with interactive audience participation in the flight as guided by your crew. Our flight destination is Esperpento, a lush and tropical paradise, away from HOME. However, leaving HOME doesn’t necessarily mean getting AWAY, as the news from home , on W-2 s In-Air NEWS clips demonstrate (video footage focused on the immediate effects of the dot com boom on the Mission Neighborhood community, artists and non-profit organizations). Join us on a trip between dreamscape and urban reality, challenging us all to take a look into the mirror of CONSUMER CULT mentality. The VOICE of the Captain interspersed with plane engines and live, reverberating mechanical and percussive instrumentation, folk melodies, gospel music, and flight attendant SAFETY tirades, meet the soaring, and contorted movement of the birds. ALL this and MORE through the eyes of one passenger named SANE, aboard the flight W-2.
