USA Projects

zoe | juniper is a dance performance and visual art company of co-artistic directors Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey. The company is based in Seattle, Washington.  Composed of a choreographer/dancer and visual artist the company began in 2004. Their newest work, A Crack in Everything* (ACIE), which will premiere at Jacob’s Pillow in July 2011, is supported with funding from the National Dance Project (NEFA) and NPN Commission Fund which will allow ACIE to tour with subsidized production funding to The Bates Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, Time Based Art Festival in Portland, On the Boards in Seattle, and the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, NC.  And more!

For the first time, the finished project will include several iterations in different mediums, each functioning as a discreet work that can be experienced independently. These iterations include a dance performance, a book of photography and currently in design is ACIE’s visual and performance art installation for gallery and museum spaces. The premiere of ACIE: Installation will be at the Time Based Art festival in Portland, September 2011.

zoe|juniper is seeking $6,500 to help complete the installation.  The support will be used to design, construct, and tour ACIE. The materials include: False walls (made of wood and Tyeck paper), Projector screens, projectors, life-sized mirrors, hanging wire/cables, Video memory cards, and self-powered speakers. This support also includes labor fees.

A Crack in Everything (ACIE) seeks to expand and examine the liminal space between action-reaction, cause-effect, and before-after. The installation is a meditation that disassociates these linear events. zoe|juniper questions how our memory of these events creates their own separate physical life, space and time and realizes a world without beginnings or endings; a performance stuck in constant liminal space and time.   As the erasure of linear time and space in this way isn’t entirely possible in a proscenium dance performance, z|j believes a video installation iteration of ACIE is absolutely necessary to fully examine this state of being. The performance, installation and photography book provide the opportunity to explore different configurations of how these spaces relate to each other as well as how ACIE’s choreography and visual world is effected and changed by these three different view points.