June 10, 2019 Press Release - #Whitenoise
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ART OF THE MATTER and DEBORAH SLATER DANCE THEATER
present
DALTON ALEXANDER
#Whitenoise
August 9 - 25, 2019
at Studio 210
Photo by Big Pants Productions
SAN FRANCISCO - June 10, 2019 - After two years of research and development, Dalton Alexander presents #Whitenoise, a complete solo evening exploring media and its effect on the body for a limited engagement at Studio 210 in the Mission District of San Francisco in August.
#Whitenoise strives to collide nostalgia for the past with current American affairs. It is a form of protest against social media, its false sense of importance to the individual, but sweeping effect on the collective.
“For 10 performances, I will explore the effect information overload from media - mainstream & social, and various modes of dispersal - has on my human body in relation to my return to the US from Europe,” Alexander said. “What becomes of a projected patriotism that is stomped on? Of a pride that has turned to disgust?
“Each performance welcomes a new experience, a different audience, a different being. While I challenge you to question your own relation to media and the US, I also challenge myself to explore the same situation again and again and again, finding new every time (or failing and falling flat, smashing into the ground and rolling over broken plastic).”
Performances of #Whitenoise take place:
August 9, 10, 16, 17, 23 and 24 at 8pm
August 11, 12, 18, and 25 at 7pm
Tickets are $8-$25 and available at https://whitenoisesolo.eventbrite.com
Press tickets available for previews Friday, August 9 and Saturday, August 10 at 8pm.
ABOUT DALTON ALEXANDER
Dalton Alexander’s art “holds a mirror to help decipher complicated reactions and has the power to convert those reactions into action.”
Dalton Alexander. Movement artist. Activist. Being. Dalton creates contemporary dance performance work from an experiential practice, improvising to find subtlety and nuance and then embodying that with concepts and mixing in sounds from everyday life. His training began at the University of New Mexico, continued in Tanzfabrik-Berlin, and landed in London at Laban where he performed works by Theo Clinkard, Xavier Rodrigues, and Dog Kennel Hill Project. Dalton has worked for punkkiCo and FACT/SF and currently dances with Margaret Jenkins. He is also the Managing Director for Deborah Slater Dance Theater.
Artist Website: https://dalexandermoves.space
Photos are available for download at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1adei0iAI7Z_owN0z0Zf3eht3UgeYfqkw?usp=sharing
For Calendar Listing:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eX-16FViBIU0QpexXja4L1ZmkIOdfBxsUgtL7Rosz0M/edit?usp=sharing
Media Contact:
Dalton Alexander (available for interviews)