Dana Salisbury and the No-See-Ums
2010-2011 Swing Space Resident, 14 Wall Street, Vault
Dana Salisbury's investigations span dance, video, language, site-specific performance installation and visual art. Her dances and videos have been seen in New York at PS 122, Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, University Settlement and the 92nd Street Y. She has created site-specific works for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, NYC's Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and Brooklyn's Old American Can Factory. In 1999, she was awarded a Bessie for her work with the performance collective Red Dive.
Salisbury’s, Whole-Body-Seer (2004), inspired by the sensate and imaginative life of the blind, offered experiential equivalents of vision without sight. This work led to the creation of “Dark Dining Projects,” an on-going series of sensory feasts served to blindfolded guests, which take place in restaurants and arts venues. Dark Dining Projects’ performance/installation, Season, opened the 2008 KO Festival of Performance in Amherst, MA.
At 14 Wall Street, Salisbury will develop Unseen Dances, dances to be experienced by blindfolded audiences. The audience is placed within the action. Dancers reveal themselves and define speed, space, location, distance, architecture and bodily effort through air currents, touch, and sound.
