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Flamenco and multi-media...and blog.

ars electronica in austria

I traveled to Linz, Austria to attend Ars Electronica. Check out my blog.

beckett-butoh 07 at atlas

BECKETT/BUTOH is an experimental treatment of three Beckett plays: Not I, Quad, and That Time designed and directed by Katsura Kan, Naropa University's MFA Guest Artist from Kyoto, Japan.As a collaborator, I had the opportunity to create live video for Quad and footage for Not I and That Time. It was a privilege and a joy to help create an exquisite, startling, rich performance and to work with Kan and all the folks from the Naropa MFA Performance program (and I loved riding the edge of creating it in four days!).

Performances were December 14 & 15, 2007 at our Black Box Theatre at ATLAS/University of Colorado. I took these photos at the 2:00 performance on December 15.©2007 Rebekah West/ATLAS Center for Arts, Media & Performance, Naropa MFA Performance Program

sweet release

40 Women Over 40 rocks. Poignant, funny, elegant, kinky, and feminine. Even if nothing else moved, Nancy Cranbourne's performances alone would be enough. Haunting choreographies by Katie Elliot and Wade Madsen challenge limited views of women and prove that these experienced women can release it sweet, really dance and not just boogie - but they can boogie! The audience laughed and cheered through the whole evening dancing out of the theatre at the end. (photos ©2007 Rebekah West)

edges of winter..

edges...

director of center for arts, media & performance

I am now the Director of the Center for Arts, Media & Performance at the ATLAS Institute of the University of Colorado. My directorship offers opportunity to produce, collaborate in, and spark multi-media, interdisciplinary exploration and expression in the Black Box Theatre, Production Studio, Video Wall and through other tantalizing physical and digital spaces and times.

Officially, my multi-media artistry, MA in Interdisciplinary Studies (writing & poetics and visual art), ten years as Producing Director of the Space for Dance/Boulder Dance Alliance, and commitment to wonder led to this position.

Unofficially, I credit a certain reluctant dragon in a blue bedspread.

Welcome to the site of the question.

ATLAS Center for Arts, Media & Performance - I invite you to attend a performance or event.

dance españa

Dance España is Colorado's newest flamenco company to entertain, teach and delight you.

Pablo Rodarte, Rebekah West and Lisa Trujillo are busy planning and preparing for flamenco workshops and performances in Colorado with flamenco artists from Colorado, New Mexico, and Washington DC.

Photo credit: Rebekah West photo by Jon Held. Photo of Pablo Rodarte courtesy of Pablo Rodarte. Photo of Lisa Trujillo courtesy of Lisa Trujillo.

giessen, germany film festival selection and collaboration

My film light hand song was selected by the Giessen Tanz Company for a collaborative performance in Giessen, Germany May 21-24, 2007. The piece ran at the Heli Coil Cinema in an event called LICHTSPIELTÄNZE (LIGHT PLAY DANCES). Light Hand Song - Filmregie: Rebekah West/ Choreographie: Carlos Cortizo / Tänzerinnen und Tänzer: Masami Sakurai, Magdalena Stoyanova, Laura Witzleben und Paul Zeplichal (Bild: Frank Sygusch).

"Meditative peace radiated from 'Light Hand Song' (director Rebekah West) which reminded of the Far East. We saw two (dancers) who dipped, nearly slow-motion-like, their hands and the tips of their toes into water. When they folded their hands and arms, attractive pictures and forms developed in close-ups. The extraordinary camera movements and settings also showed a dance-like element. In the strict choreography of Carlos Cortizo, the dancers Masami Sakurai, Magdalena Stoyanova, Laura Witzleben and Paul Zeplichal, who were combined into groups of two, were outlining bizarre forms. The pairs on stage performed the identical movements, sometimes synchronous, sometimes chronologically transposed." Geissener Anzeiger

sansouci festival of dance cinema selection

"Great images, movement, and sound. I loved the harmony/juxtaposition of the young man and the older woman."

"Really lovely film. When the dancers touched their hearts I was so moved my heart quickened and it didn't slow down until the film ended. "

"This film is pure dance."

iceland - 700IS hreindyraland film festival selection

My short film, o, lady my heart: poem 6, with music by Jack Sharman and featuring Jennifer Lee Robinson, was selected as part of The Culture Centre of Fljótsdalshérað's International Experimental Film and Video Festival, 700IS, in Egilsstadir Iceland. The film was selected from over 500 entries. The selected group are packaged in one DVD to tour international film festivals.

pigeon postman and the dragon delivery

Afraid and curious, a Pigeon postman responds to the subject of one terrifying story after another. He discovers what has been secretly created and bravely claims an important role in a fabulous, living tale.

With the assistance of a grant from the Boulder Arts Commission, this children's story will soon be under the editorial eyes of young writers visiting the Boulder Public Library. Like the Pigeon, I am afraid and curious what the children will make of it, but being the author and knowing the ending, I can't wait for the secrets to fly...

A dear twenty-two year old who was once a dear eight year old made this picture when the story roared to life for him.