Episode 6 - Alice Gosti
Episode 6: choreographer and durational performance artist, Alice Gosti.
Alice has a solo-show coming up Nov 1-17th at ACT Theatre called Where is home - birds of passage. The show is a 3 hour come and go durational performance examining Alice’s personal experience as an Italian-American immigrant artist. From Alice, “Like all of my work, birds of passage connects my personal history to wider collective histories. In this work, I tackle the history of Italian-American immigration to the US as well as the ongoing struggle for justice and equitable treatment that current immigrants and refugees face today.”
Tickets are on sale now! Click here for more info and tickets.
Before that solo show, Alice and her company Malacarne are having a fundraiser Party in Seattle on October 24th.
And her work Material Deviance in Contemporary American Culture, which premiered last year at On the Boards is touring nationally to Boston (MA) Sept 27-29 and Charlotte (NC) Oct 17-18.
In this episode, Alice and I talk about her dual identity as an Italian-American immigrant, how she became interested in creating durational performances, and how she approaches making collaborative work. Enjoy!
Alice Gosti is an Italian-American Immigrant choreographer, hybrid performance artist, curator and architect of experiences, working between Seattle and Europe since 2008.
She holds a B. A. in Dance from the University of Washington with a focus in choreography and experimental film.
Gosti’s work has been recognized with numerous awards, commissions and residencies including being a recipient of the 2012 Vilcek Creative Promise in Dance Award, the 2012 ImPulsTanz danceWEB scholarship, the 2015 inaugural Intiman Theatre’s Emerging Artist Program as a Director, the Bossak/Heilbron Award, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Award, an Artist Trust GAP Grant and Fellowship, NEFA’s National Dance Project 2016 and of the inaugural Italian Council Grant from the Italian Minister of Culture (MiBACT). Gosti was also a two-time Cornish Artist Incubator Awardee, Velocity Dance Center’s 2015 Artist-in-Residence, is Seattle University 2016 Artist-in-Residency at the University of Washington.
Gosti’s work has been commissioned and presented nationally, by On the Boards, Velocity Dance Center, Seattle Art Museum, Intiman Theatre, Vilcek Foundation at the Joyce (NY), ODC Theater (SF) as part of the SCUBA national touring network, Risk/Rewards Festival (PDX) and Performance Works Northwest (PDX).
Find more info about Alice’s work including video of her work on her website: www.gostia.com.
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