P.A.N.
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Friday, Jan 26 › 9pm › $5
ST. VITUS DANCE CLUB: P.A.N. (Perception As Narcotic) are a ragtag band of dancers and performance artists, their work founded in a mutual appreciation of butoh, their future never certain. When they go to Japan, P.A.N. (Pretty Art Numb) can generally be found in the company of a disshevelled young gentleman named Marron, who plays effects-laden guitar and flute in a curious little project called Dubmarronics. For Marron's part, he is rarely seen without his right-hand man DJ Daichi, a freak saint in the aristocracy of Okinawan disco house.
Indeed. St. Vitus Dance Club is expanding its scope to include the Far East, bringing post-asiatic dancers and their genuinely Japanese cronies together for the first time in the States, all for the benefit of your own two feet. And we'll line up a couple of local turntablists just in case our guests of honor get tired.
About the artist
PAN is an art & performance collaborative team creating dance, theater, installations, and video works. Founded in 1999, this Seattle-based company presents contemporary, integrated works in galleries, museums, theaters, alternative spaces, dance clubs, rock shows, cafes, bars, parks, 'raves', site-specific works, street demonstrations, and festivals. The projects are largely inspired by the seminal dance movement of Butoh as well as drawing on sources ranging from Surrealism to Punk. Notable events include presentations at Kyoyuk Munhwa Hoekwan Theater (Seoul, South Korea); Loveless (Tokyo, Japan); K.D. Japon (Nagoya, Japan); Cafe Independants (Kyoto, Japan); San Francisco Butoh Festival; Bellevue Art Museum; Burningman Festival (Black Rock City, NV); in Portland, OR at Disjecta Gallery, Center Space, Medicine Hat Gallery, enterACTIVE Language Arts Festival 2002-5; in Seattle at Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle International Butoh Festival at On The Boards, Experience Music Project, Showbox Theater, CoCA - Center on Contemporary Art, Vital 5 Gallery, Consolidated Works, the Kalakala, VERA Project, and during protests against the WTO in 1999. The ensemble has also supported community-based projects by performing at benefits for the Kalakala Foundation, Fuse Foundation, Home Alive, Good Shepard Center, TASVEER, Secluded Alley Works, Stronghold Collective, Allied Arts, KBCS, and Mumia Abu-Jamal.
PAN is known for presenting multidisciplinary works that are 'radical' and experimental in nature—combining elements of performance, 'happening', visual art, design, video projections, music / sound / text, and interactivity. The central focus of the group is the human body, and its relationship to architecture, media, and the environment. This emerging ensemble has presented over 30 works as well as producing an annual large-scale, all-ages, multi-media event. Major work includes "Vermillion. Violet", a full-evening dance/theater work that explores the process of 'bruising'; through movement, music, and text. "Art Model 01", an interactive performance installation examining the process of art production by recreating a studio figure drawing session. "PAN-LAB Industries", a month exhibit of an installation designed as a pharmaceutical company with marketing products, merchandise, and commercials on display. "Crosspollination", an ongoing film/video and performance project exploring the animal/human connection, and the process of transformation. As a presenting organization, PAN has produced "Butoh-A-Go-Go" at the Fremont UnConventional Center, "Solstice" at Consolidated Works, "Pan-O-Rama" at the Jem Arts Center, and co-produced the 2000 Seattle International Butoh Festival at On The Boards—which invited artists from Tokyo, Sapporo, Stockholm, Toronto, San Francisco, Austin, and the Northwest for 11 days of workshops, performances, and a lecture / demonstration.
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