Imperfectly Beautiful

Imperfectly Beautiful highlights the idea of possibilities of the unknown. What does it feel like, as a performer, to discover the project outcome, at the same time as the audience? For this project, three groups of artists (dancers, voice, music), will be given a prompt. Each group will have the opportunity to explore this prompt and create something individually from the other groups. The idea is that there is no interaction between the groups during the week of ShenCoLAB. All three groups will come together, for the first time, on the festival day to perform their pieces live in front of an audience, all together. The goal is to create something that isn’t perfect, but rather raw and authentic, and to discover the magic of interdisciplinary work. I want the audience to appreciate the beauty of imperfection. In any performance, the audience always discovers the piece for the first time when viewing it, but through the project, we invite the performers into this feeling, for now, they won’t know what will happen either.

PROJECT LEADER: Paige DeFrees

CHOREOGRAPHY: Maggie DeFrees

COMPOSER: Mya Vandergrift

DANCERS: Jenna Eckenrod, Avery Eisenhauer, Kaliyah Fridia, Kate Mark, Angelique Melendez-Vargas, Maria Pomares

INSTRUMENTALISTS: Kristianson Dillon, Jesse Eagle, Cameron Edmiston

VOCALISTS: Grace Ashby, Shannon Fowler

WRITER: Kylie Johnson