Cid Pearlman

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Cid Pearlman Performance Project
This Is What We Do in Winter (2011, US Premiere),
Presented by SFIAF, Cid Pearlman Performance Project

Cid Pearlman’s This Is What We Do in Winter, features dancers from Estonia and the United States, performing to an original score Pearlman’s long time collaborator, composer Jonathan Segel (Camper Van Beethoven), with costumes by Estonian scenographer Pille Kose. Starting as strangers—foreign bodies in the same room—this international collaboration reflects on the process of getting to know each other during the long, dark Estonian winter.

Pearlman’s "…intelligent, sensual choreography…" (SF Bay Guardian, 2011) foregrounds the individuality of the performer. She creates intimate choreo-portraits of the artists she work with, bringing their specific personalities, strengths and vulnerabilities to the stage. During the 2009-10 academic year, Pearlman was a Fulbright Scholar in Estonia, teaching at Tallinn University and collaborating with Estonian dance artists. During her year in Northern Europe, she fell in love with Estonia in all its complexity. One of the highlights was working with an extraordinary group of dancers—three Estonians and two Americans: Tiina Mölder, Rain Saukas, Helen Reitsnik, Alexis Steeves and David King. Together, they experimented with performance and embodiment, thinking about how to create environments in which the dancers could be wholly themselves, while simultaneously working with the choreography that they created. Out of these experiments came This Is What We Do in Winter. At the end of her year in Estonia, Pearlman’s choreography, featuring Estonian, American and French dancers, was presented by KorFest at Kanuti Gildi SAAL in Tallinn, and by NoTaFe in Viljandi.

Post:Ballet
Mine is Yours (2012, World Premiere)
Presented by SFIAF, Post:Ballet

Mine Is Yours, a world premiere collaboration featuring choreographer Robert Dekkers and composer Daniel Berkman, is an inquiry into our society’s perspective on sharing and community, particularly where relationships and sexuality are concerned. The new work questions our assumptions about monogamy, sexual orientation, family dynamics, infidelity, and marriage. Dekkers’ and Berkman’s third project together, Mine Is Yours will investigate our natural inclinations and deeply rooted instincts in this exploration of the evolution of sexuality and relationships in our society.

Susanna Leinonen Company
Chinese Objects (2005, US Premiere) US Debut
Presented by SFIAF, Cid Pearlman Performance Project and Post:Ballet

The Susanna Leinonen company perform the rigorous duet, Chinese Objects—a plunge into the world of the subconscious through physical movement, with industrial-digitally manipulated score by long-time collaborator Kasperi Laine and clever lighting by Hanna Käykhö.

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http://www.sfiaf.org/2012Festival/artists/Cid-Pearlman.html