Tangled Garden
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Installation: September 28th till October 3rd, 2021
Performance: September 28th, 2021 Performed by Movement III Class, Fall 2021 Department of Theatre and Drama Edie Crowley, Sam Dodane-Smiley, Theresa Dvorocsik, Molly Felsher, Bianca Garfinkle, Nathan Goldberg, Samuel Guthartz, Mackenzie Holly, Lenin Izquierdo, Patricia Joseph, Blake Letournean, Grace Lutenske, Ulises Otero, Adam Rogers, Donovan Rogers, Jalen Steudle, Emilia Vizachero, Victoria Vourkoutiots, John Weaver, Casey Wilcox Site: Moore Building, North Campus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
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Previous realizations
This project has had many lives: the ribbons have travelled to many fascinating places and have spent time with many beautiful communities. From performance at Jusdon Church, NYC, to being part of National Water Dance, Middlebury, VT, from a suburb of Washington, DC to Bridging Communities in Detroit this project leaves a large scale art installation that brightens everyone's day and puts a smile on their face.
The performers move in slow motion to weave and and criss-cross oversized colorful ribbons with in the three dimensional structure of the site. The vastly different time signature illuminates the pedestrian, task oriented activities of the dancers and makes each detail memorable. This dramatic shift of time defines the event among its surroundings and offers a calm energy island within the sea of activity. One of the premises of the work is to make unnoticeable change visible and to highlight the process of creating something beautiful and tangible that is a result of a dance, but can remain after the piece is over.
This project was originally commissioned by Reston Community Center and was realized as a five-hours long installation piece performed at the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival 2011.
Tangled: Stage for allTangled: Stage for all is a large scale multimedia event/installation that incorporates memories, images, and ideas of Southwest Detroit, developed and curated in close partnership with local artists, residents and SMTD students in this tangled and evocative transitional space. This project was made possible by University of Michigan MCubed grant received by Paul Draus (Sociology, University of Michigan Dearborn) and Tzveta Kassabova (SMTD), and was developed in partnership with Bridging Communities and Motor City Street Dance Academy. The event was a part of Detroit Month of Design 2020. For more information go here. After the event the ribbon installation stayed at the site for 11 months and became a guardian of the site preventing dumping. |
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Judson Garden16 minute site-adaptive group work performed at : Judson Church, NYC and Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT |
Judson Garden from Tzveta Kassabova on Vimeo. |
Winter GardenInstallation and video shoot at Middlebury College, VT January, 2015 |
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Focus: HOPE WorkshopWorkshop for Focus: HOPE Community Arts Department after-school program exposing the students to the ideas and movement vocabulary of the work Garden May , 2017 |
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National Water Dance 2016 |
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Pavilion GardenPavilion Garden is a site-specific work commissioned by Reston Community Center. The five-hours long installation piece is designed specifically for the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival 2011. Pavilion Garden took place at the Reston Town Center where twenty performers criss-crossed colorful ribbons within the three dimensional structure of the pavilion. For more information go here. |
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