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After meeting dance video artist, Ana Baer Carrillo, in the summer of 2004, and realizing a shared synergistic working and visioning aesthetic, Olson and Baer embarked upon a series of dance video collaborations. Sharing a desire to create in raw, unsuspecting spaces, Olson and Baer have now created five experimental dance video projects.
These have toured internationally via the San Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, and company performances of kim olson/sweet edge. Each piece is created to stand alone as a video work and also exist as a projected environment for live dance. All of the works are shot in public spaces, creating an intriguing, evolving process whereby the shooting of the dance for video creates a live performance/installation event.
Baer’s eye for texture, chronological and deconstructive layering, unveiling, perfectly meld with Olson’s impulse to develop movement contextually -where situations and challenges, extremes, drive movement response, awakening a body’s innate sensibilities and thus revealing a raw, primal aspect of our nature.
The resulting works are uniquely visually and viscerally stunning collaborations of dance and video, each propelled by an inner mission to expose and relay a most devastating and fragile poetic beauty.
Bare
| trio |
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12 minutes |
| choreography & direction |
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Kim Olson |
| videography & editing |
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Ana Baer |
| video assistant |
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Brett Baer |
| costume design |
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Kim Olson |
| music |
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David Darling |
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| Commission |
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Links Project |
| World Premier |
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2004 September 19th |
| Roxy Art House |
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Edinburgh, Scotland |
Shot north of Pike National Forrest in the foothills of Colorado.
Anger
| improvography |
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Kim Olson |
| videography & editing |
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Ana Baer |
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| World Premier |
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2005 April 23 |
| San Souci Festival of Dance Cinema |
Shot in Boulder County Open Space park, Colorado.
City Scapes
| choreography & direction |
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Kim Olson and dancers |
| videography & editing |
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Ana Baer |
| costume |
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Kim Olson |
| music |
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Randy Gibson |
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| World Premier |
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2006 August 19th |
| International tanzmesse nrw |
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Dusseldorf, Germany |
Shot in Denver, Colorado.
Train
| improvography |
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Kim Olson and dancers from Tanzcompagnie Giessen |
| videography & editing |
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Ana Baer |
| vcostumes |
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Kim Olson and dancers |
| music |
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Randy Gibson |
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| World Premier |
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2007 April 4th |
| San Souci Festival of Dance Cinema |
| Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO |
Shot in and around the Dusseldorf Main Terminal train station, Germany.
Luna
| choreography |
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Kim Olson |
| videography & editing |
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Ana Baer |
| costume |
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Kim Olson |
| music |
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David Darling |
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| World Premier |
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2007 April 4th |
| San Souci Festival of Dance Cinema |
| Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO |
Shot live onsight at BMoCA.
background photo: Scott Belding / small left to right: Robert Goldhamer, Ana Baer Carrillo, James Glader
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