Your Ocean, My Ocean (YOMO: Intermedia)

Three dancers wrapped head to foot in pale satin lean and sweep across a gray stage, their billowing cloth catching blue and gold light like a breaking wave. Behind them, teal shapes ripple across dark curtains, and bare feet press into a floor washed with faint green.
Title
Your Ocean, My Ocean (YOMO: Intermedia)
Artist/Creator
John Crawford
Description
An experimental intermedia performance combining dance, live music, projected media and visual design, created in response to the beauty of oceans and coastlines and to the damage human activity does to marine ecosystems. Directed by John Crawford with composer and violinist Mari Kimura and four choreographers, the roughly 80-minute work set live dancers and musicians against processed video shot at ocean and coastal sites, in four sections titled Emergence, Gyre, Oil Slick and Refuge. It premiered at the Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL) in UC Irvine's Contemporary Arts Center and was produced by the Institute for 21st Century Creativity, with scenic elements and animations developed in a UCI/RISD collaboratory course. An expanded version was presented at Brown University's Granoff Center in April 2019, and the project frames its aims around climate justice and the inclusion of diverse voices.
Event Type
Performance
Digital / New Media
Date
February 6–9, 2019
Location
Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL), Contemporary Arts Center, UC Irvine, Irvine, California
Geographic Scope
Coastal / Marine Region
Climate & Ecology Themes
Oceans and Coasts
Climate Justice
Discipline / Field
Arts & Design
Concepts
Loss and Grief
Audience / Engagement Type
Public / General Audience
Performance
Methods & Approaches
Collaborative / Co-Creation
Rights
Rights held by artist or creator
Website
yomo-2019.embodied.net
Contributor
Mari Kimura (composer, violinist), Lindsay Gilmour, Molly Lynch, Lisa Naugle, Tong Wang (choreographers), Dipu Gupta, Jesse Colin Jackson, Madison Russ, Anya Drozd (scenic design), Kyna Leski (creative consultant), Morgan Embry (lighting design), Ashton Montgomery (costume design), Jane Page (spoken word director), Bruce Warner (technical director), Jessica Keasberry (stage manager), Hannah Tran (media design assistant), Leandro Damasco (photographer/videographer), students of UC Irvine and Rhode Island School of Design
Medium
Video / Digital Video
Audio / Sound
Publisher
UC Irvine, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Institute for 21st Century Creativity (21C)
Item sets
California Art & Climate Archive
UC Irvine
Media
Three dancers wrapped head to foot in pale satin lean and sweep across a gray stage, their billowing cloth catching blue and gold light like a breaking wave. Behind them, teal shapes ripple across dark curtains, and bare feet press into a floor washed with faint green.John Crawford, Your Ocean, My Ocean (YOMO: Intermedia)