It's not always exactly clear what Stronach is dancing "about" in relation to the images behind her, but a sense of storytelling is always present in her vocabulary.
The TamiStronach Dance Troupe recently performed "Love Particles," a piece in which couples are connected by strings of bubble gum, in Bartos Theatre as guests of Associate Professor Ted Selker of the Media Lab.
Dec 2002 FRESH TRACKS, Completing the program is TamiStronach’s Mother Tongue, which is inspired by the sounds of the Persian Language. The language, once spoken by the choreographer but subsequently forgotten, reemerges in the form of a movement vocabulary.
The most extensive are those of choreographerTamiStronach, in a white evening-gownish outfit, and Kate Weare, in a fl and white costume that suggests a tuxedo.
Stronach emerges shaking her right hand furiously, then flinging her arms while her lower body stays mostly still.
Weare's piece, by contrast, is all lower body she sticks to the floor, lifting, crawling and turning her lower half with her legs.
Recently, UC Berkeley professor of Near Eastern Archaeology David Stronach, was announced the 2004 recipient of the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement.
The medal is the highest honor bestowed by the AIA, and is given in recognition of a scholar who has made distinguished contributions to archaeology through his or her fieldwork, publications, and teaching.
Another notable interest (for me at least) is TamiStronach, professor Stronach's daughter, whom many of you will remember her from Wolfgang Peterson' s 1984 blockbuster "The Never Ending Story".
The feathers, the gloves that are sometimes part of Kelly Harrison's costumes, and the occasional chicken-squat walk are stylistic choices as much as Harrison's irregularly shaped hanging panels that show blue sky and clouds, the tub on its pedestal, and a fl tub looking as if it were starting to grow out of one wall.
Stronach constructs her kookily elegant and imaginative piece with care.
In place, Stronach begins by shaking one hand and builds a composition of twisting and shaking to the Gypsy music (by Taraf de Haidouks) that Karinne Keithley has designed into her sound score.
Just for anyone who cares, when I first started this project I was maybe 13 or so, just a year or so older than Tami in the movie and I searched and searched for info about what she was currently doing, and finally decided to make my own page, so people wouldn't be lost anymore.
I was able to contact her (and my drama teacher laughed at me for doing so) and she provided me with a little information and some new and old pictures.
A couple of other things, if you were here in the past and left a message on the Guestbook (man I haven't signed any guestbooks in ages) she DID used to read it occasionally, so she probably read your comment.
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NEW YORK -- There was a distinctly British air to the office romance created by TamiStronach in her dance-theater work "The Maid and the Marmalade," seen this past Saturday at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church.
This developing drama is interspersed with dance provided by the three "statues": Stronach, Kate Weare, and Isadora Wolfe; Marchant (the woman in red) and Adrian Clark (a man in white).
After Stronach's tour de force spastic arm solo mirrored by Barnes, we are overwhelmed; we have been carpet bombed.
The inside of TamiStronach's head must be an interesting place to visit.
But in Stronach's new The Maid and the Marmalade, two potent elements are so apparently disparate that I yearn for just a few more hints as to why they belong together.
Having written about Stronach's fascinating piece, I begin to see more correspondences between the dancing that emerges from the shadows at the back and the subtle crumbling of repressed transactions between a comfortably domineering man wedded to his job and an adoringly subservient woman.
Dancers: Jeremy Laverdure, Jason Marchant, Isadora Wolfe, Brittany Reese, TamiStronach, and Tracy Dickson.
I wasn't an orchid expert before the show, but after instruction from The Orchid Show's outrageous Jill St. John (a dolled- up Jeremy Laverdure lip- synching to a voiceover by TamiStronach), I would consider myself extremely knowledgeable on the subject.
The show is packed full of facts and figures on this exotic flower.
Ideas, images, styles must be constantly waltzing around, changing partners, flying apart, and re-cementing themselves oddly.
ChoreographerTamiStronach’s work has been presented in New York by Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce Soho, Movement Research at Judson Church, PS 122, Dixon Place, The Willliamsburg Art neXus, Galapagos Performing Arts Space, La Mama, and the Gowanus Arts Exchange, among others.
She also acts with the internationally acclaimed theatre company The Flying Machine (2001–present).
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She has enjoyed dancing with Neta Pulvermacher and Dancers since 1996...
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