She will only be seen in the dark.
She is a magician of picture and light.
She exists in many dimensions.
She is visceral contemporary dance.
She is studying the subtleties of your behavior.
She is eternally bound to archetype, myth, lore, alchemy, and dreams.
She is metamorphosis.
She is the daughter of Jim Henson, Chris Cunningham, Akira Kurosawa, Kathy Rose, Wendy Carlos, Yayoi Kusama, Planningtorock, Aleister Crowley, her friends, and you.

WIFE

is dance interacting with original projected animations, music, light, and costumes. She has been seen at LACE, Human Resources, Dripped Fashion Show, Pieter, The El Portal Theatre, and as part of the Bootleg Dance Festival 2011. WIFE’s “The Grey Ones” was presented at the Long Beach TEDx SoCal event, and is also featured on the electronic music artist Amon Tobin’s box set DVD. WIFE was awarded the ARC grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation in the fourth quarter of 2011. Currently, WIFE is creating a full-length dance/projection work to be performed at The Compound in Boyle Heights and featured in Native Strategies, a biannual journal and platform for performance art in Los Angeles. WIFE has also been invited to perform in the Forum Lounge at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum in May 2012. WIFE was born of three Los Angeles based artists…

Jasmine Albuquerque is a dancer, choreographer, and instructor. She has danced with such companies as Hysterica, Blue13 Bollywood, Collage Dance Theater and Ryan Heffington’s psycho-dance performance Fingered. Other live performances include We Are the World, Hazm, and Hecuba in various venues around LA such as the Hammer Museum, the Ford Amphitheater, MOCA, the Orpheum Theater, LACMA, the Joshua Tree Music Festival, and even a laundromat. She has choreographed music videos for Bob Wayne (directed by Jennifer Tzar) and danced in videos for Beck, You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead, Morcheba, and Todd Edwards. She studied contemporary movement in Budapest, Hungary and at The Edge in Hollywood after years of classical ballet and jazz training. While majoring in History, she danced for the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA and later taught movement workshops in Chiapas, Mexico where she turned vatos into ballerinas. Her current work with WIFE contines to challenge and inspire her as a performer.

Kristen Leahy is a dancer/choreographer based in Los Angeles. For the past ten years, Leahy has danced with Ryan Heffington (Fingered) and other LA choreographers in clubs, art galleries (MOCA, LACMA), with bands (We Are the World, Mt. Sims, Shiny Toy Guns), in theater productions, and in numerous music videos and short films. Her choreography credits include the Sister Mantos 2009 European Tour, Pray/Prey, a ritual performance in collaboration with artist Amanda Street, and the ongoing work as a co-creator of WIFE. Leahy also earned her M.S. in Dance/Movement Therapy from Pratt Institute, and currently practices D/MT with adults at a psychiatric facility and teaches adult tap and jazz classes.

Nina McNeely is a video artist, choreographer and dancer based in Los Angeles. She has choreographed for music artists including Yeasayer, Morcheeba, Sam Sparro, We are The World, Dorian Wood, and Baseck. Her interactive projection work was recently featured at MOCA for Ryan Heffington’s “Heffington Moves MOCA.” Nina’s film “The Dinner Party” premiered at Dance Camera West in 2010. She has danced for pop icons such as the B 52′s, Britney Spears, Fergie, and Peaches. Her commercial career has taken a turn toward editing and animating, and her latest successes include Sam Sparro’s “Pink Cloud” music video, Dorian Wood’s “Brutus” music video, interviews for ELLE Magazine online, and a video look book for L’Agence. Her collaboration with WIFE is an experiment in the possibilities of dance, video and fantasy.

 

PRESS

The Creators Project
http://thecreatorsproject.com/blog/wife-uses-animated-projections-to-reinvent-dance-performance

LA Times
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/03/entertainment/la-et-guidefeature3-20110303

TEDx Talks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IZG6qELYgY

 

CONTACT
wifecontact@gmail.com