Rashomon Effect

Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd presents (the return of) The Rashomon Effect, an improvisational series based on the storytelling method employed in Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomôn

Saturday, December 9 at 8:00p.m.
Mascher Space Cooperative
155 Cecil B. Moore Avenue (Mascher St. and Cecil B. Moore Ave.), Philadelphia
$5

Allison Lorenzen.mvmt < > Mikronesia.snd Rebecca Patek.mvmt < >Bilwa.snd Zornitsa Stoyanova.mvmt < >Sean Mattio.snd Emily Sweeney.mvmt< >Helena Espvall.snd John Phillips.video

The term "Rashomon effect" refers to the effect of subjectivity on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.

In The Rashomon Effect, eight performers inhabit a round-robin score in which each dancer is paired with a musician in an interactive duet. Within this simple framework, sound and movement themes are introduced and explored through each artist's medium, morphing and expanding with each pass around the circle. John Phillips will be recording, manipulating, and projecting video on site.

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