Video Gallery
Surreptitious Preparations for an Impossible Total Act (2016,17) Full length video, Roulette, NY, 2017: 1'08"
Two Huts (2011-12)
Highlight Reel, Seattle & NY, 2012 (7 1/2 min) Seattle showing, Feb 2012, Part One, 37' Seattle showing, Feb 2012, Part Two, 34' New York performances, March 2012, Part One, 36' New York performances, March 2012, Part Two, 37' Created at Juniata College, & further developed with Debra Wanner, Tom Cayler & Todd Jefferson Moore. Performed in Seattle at Open Flight Studio, & in Brooklyn, NY at Roulette. More on Two Huts. Ruins Memories video (2010) Excerpts, 5'40" The Corduroy Prayer video (2009) Three excerpts, 5'40"
A Fashion Show full-length video, 32 min (1997-2003)A collaboration with innovative sculptor Claudia Fitch, this work tampers with the formalities & theatrics of models on the runway. Performed in Seattle at U of WA, Dance on Capitol Hill, Broadway Performance Hall, Bumbershoot, & Seattle Festival of Dance & Improvisation. Commissioned & performed by Cornish Dance theater in 1999. |
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Chase Scene video (1984)
Excerpt: Ladder Dance, 5'3" "I am in love with the ladder piece. I watched it time and time again. So beautifully plotted and executed. A journey for the mind in movement medium." Mary Overlie, creator of Viewpoints Performed worldwide at Danspace Project, NYC, Hallwalls in Buffalo, NY; Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY; University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana; American Center in Paris; Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, Wales, and a UK/France tour at The Place in London; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; University of Warwick; Midland Group, Nottingham; Arts Centre, Hexham. More on Chase Scene.
Delicacy video (1996) Excerpt: 2'53" A collaboration by Skura & performers Lionel Popkin & John Dixon. Two naked men covered head-to-toe with wet paint -- primary yellow & primary blue -- have a brief encounter, & proceed on their diagonal paths, leaving colored pathways on the floor & green patterns on each other. Performed at Seattle's Freehold Theater. More on Delicacy. Fantasy World of Bernard Herrmann video (1988-89) 34" Version 1 & Version 2 (beginning at 34") 35-minute dance for six set to 1950's science fiction & romantic music by ground-breaking film composer Bernard Herrmann. About artifice and the infiltration of film cliches into our lives. Includes numerous brief exact replicas of press photo stills from films of the 1950's, 60's, & 70's. More on Herrmann
Cranky Destroyers (1987)First Movement video, 8' Second Movement video,10' Third Movement video 14'16"
Premiered at P.S. 122, NYC. Performed worldwide, including Lincoln Center, BAM Opera House, Pepsico Summerfare, Central Park Summerstage, Joyce Theater, NY; Intermedia Arts Center, Huntington, NY; Group Motion, PA; MoMing Arts Center, Chicago; Casa de Serralves, Porto & Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon in Portugal; Tanz '90 at Secession Theater, Vienna; Petofi Csarnok, Budapest; Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival; Bates College, ME; Bagley-Wright Theater, Seattle. Commissioned & performed by D-9 Dance Co. of Seattle, 1994-95. More on Cranky Destroyers. Stopstartswat (1987)Duet created & performed by Stephanie & composer Jim Pugliese. Premiered at Dance Theater Workshop, 1987; also repsented by Jacob's Pillow & Swarthmore College.. Video by Dennis Diamond.
Artbusiness (1984) Full-length video: 38"
Survey of Styles (1984-5) Full-length video: 1 hour Climbing the Waltz (1984) Full-length video: 30" Boy Meets Girl (1983) Excerpt: 10"
Travelog (1986) Video Excerpt: Spam Island, 1'17" Intentionally tacky 'commercial' rudely interrupting this performance-with-video. About traveling & the experiences, dreams, emotions, anxieties, & revelations that traveling elicits. Performed at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; New Performance Gallery, San Francisco; Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY; Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY. More on Travelog. |
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Some Kind of Dance, Part One (1982), 16' Quack Pianist (1979-84)
Roof, San Francisco Art Institute video 9'27" Performed in NYC in various permutations at The Kitchen, WOW Festival, Ear Inn, Cunningham Studio, Club 57, Theater for the New City, NYU Guest Artist Series, Stonybrook College Experimental Theater Festival, 20 N Moore Studio, Charlemagne Palestine's Studio, and in many video adaptations by Terry Moyemont. More on Quack Pianist. |