After a four-year hiatus, Base is delighted to announce the return of the Base Occasional, a periodic platform for new work in experimental dance and performance. Base Occasional No. 4, Ama, the Diver, marks a return to Base by three acclaimed artists.
Lori Goldston, renowned Seattle musician, cellist, plays live her original score for Ama, directed and performed by NYC theater artists Katiana Gonçales Rangel and Jim Fletcher. These three have collaborated previously on a production of Sarah Kane’s Blasted, which ran in 2021 at PS21 in Chatham, New York.
Ama, the Diver was developed as part of Nalanda West artistic residency in Seattle, WA.
About the play:
Ama, the Diver
A young man, of noble heritage on his father's side, searches out and learns the story of his mother, a seaweed diver of humble origins, who had attempted a superhuman feat, underwater, for his sake. This is an adaptation of the Noh play Ama (over a thousand years old) which is based on a 'prehistoric' Japanese play/story whose origin is not precisely known.
Run time: 75 minutes
Tickets:
Friday, January 12, 2024 at 8pm
Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 8pm
About the Artists:
Lori Goldston is a cellist and composer from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist draws connections between far-flung idioms, and explores timbral thresholds of her instrument moving, built on a restless curiosity and a long, busy history of collaborations with bands, orchestras, composers, film makers, writers and choreographers, including Earth, Nirvana, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Helms Alee, Mirah, Maya Dunietz, Jherek Bischoff, Tara Jane O'Neil, Jessika Kenney, Eyvind Kang, Ilan Volkov, Vanessa Renwick, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Lonnie Holley, Stuart Dempster, Torben Ulrich, Shelley Hirsch, Ghedalia Tezartes, Senga Nengudi, Ellen Fullman, Lynn Shelton, Natacha Atlas, Matana Roberts, Christian Rizzo, Marisa Anderson, and many, many others. She has released recordings on Sub Rosa, Woodland Fauna, Marginal Frequency, Yo Yo, K Records, Second Editions, Sub Pop, Mississippi Records, Eiderdown, Substrata, SofaBurn, Ed Banger, PIAPTK, SofaBurn, Broken Clover, and No Sun. She has performed her work at venues and festivals throughout the US, Mexico, Canada, Australia and Europe, including the Kennedy Center, Joe’s Pub, Cineteca Nacional de Mexico, Henry Art Gallery, Frye Art Museum, PS21, Tectonics, Le Guess Who?, On the Boards, Bumbershoot, TBA, What the Heck Fest, Chicago Humanities Festival, River to River, Sydney Festival, and for Paris Fashion Week. https://www.lorigoldston.com/
Jim Fletcher is a founding member of New York City Players with Richard Maxwell and currently works with The Wooster Group. He has worked with Sarah Michelson (Devotion); Elevator Repair Service (GATZ); Katiana Rangel (Blasted); Forced Entertainment; Dayna Hanson; and many others.
Katiana Gonçales Rangel (they/them) is an independent theater artist and educator from Brazil based in New York City. They founded with Rodrigo Pavon the theater and performance research group Untitled in 2011, for which they translated, co-directed, and performed 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane and What Where by Samuel Beckett. In 2023, Katiana directed, along with Richard Maxwell and Gillian Walsh, After Hours at The Clemente, a theater piece collaboratively developed on the theme of works of immigrants; and Tales Frey and Katiana merged their work in the creation of Amalgam NYC Connection developed at LMCC studios in Governors Island and performed at Judson Memorial Church. In 2022, Katiana directed Graceland and Open House, two documentary theater works about housing experiences. In 2021, Katiana conceived, with the anthropologist Jasmine Clotilde Pisapia, the project The Vessel, directed by Richard Maxwell; and directed and performed Blasted by Sarah Kane with Jim Fletcher with music by Lori Goldston. As a solo artist they have created the performance works Suspended and Iraci or What’s Underneath My Skin. They are also a founding member of the dance group Les Ballets Nomades (Voices Transposed: The Refugee Crisis at Manhattan Movement and Arts Center), and a collaborator of New York City Players. Katiana received the Immigrant Artist Performance Award 2022 from Chashama, NYC. https://www.katianagoncalesrangel.com/
Ama, the Diver marks a return to Base for all three artists: In 2019, Lori presented a series of live-scored silent films, including Salome, by Charles Bryant and Alia Nazimova, and Theodore Dreyer’s Joan of Arc. Jim performed in Base Co-Founder Dayna Hanson’s 28 problems in Base’s first public performance ever, and Katiana performed her solo work, “Suspended,” as part of Base’s 12 Minutes Max.
Find them: katianagoncalesrangel.com, lorigoldston.com, @katjanarangel, @legoldston