MALACARNE & Alice Gosti at Inscape
Four Immigrant artists from all over the world guide audiences through an experimental tour of the historic Inscape Building
We’re thrilled to host current Inscape Artist-in-Residence Alice Gosti’s world premiere performance of where is home : third shore.
Four immigrant solo dancers will guide the audience through Seattle’s Inscape building. These unique tours will integrate the performers’ embodied immigration experiences with the Inscape building’s history as an Immigration and Naturalization Center. Led by Italian-American choreographer Alice Gosti, the artistic team is composed entirely of immigrant artists. The show is produced by MALACARNE and supported by Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4 Culture, ArtsWA Restart, and ArtsWA Revive.
LIMITED RUN: June 16-18, tours beginning at 6PM each night
Please follow these links to the Facebook event page and ticketing.
How do we bridge immigrant experiences through performance? How do we celebrate our immigrant identity without exoticization? How do we examine the complex history of the Inscape building alongside the sharing of our own personal immigrant histories?
These are the timely questions driving where is home : third shore. Gosti, along with the extraordinary Seattle-based immigrant artist cast, developed choreography using these questions as a base to create each unique dance-based tour experience.
As a part of the creation process, the immigrant artists have spent time in the Inscape building, immersing themselves in its hallways and holding rooms. They have also examined their own history, mythology and pulled from culturally-specific gestures of their home countries.
The artists are especially excited to share the work with Seattle’s immigrant communities as a way to create new connections, build bridges, and foster community. The work can be experienced by anyone, regardless of the language that they speak or their history with dance performance. To emphasize their intention to share this work with Seattle’s immigrant community, MALACARNE is offering discount/sliding scale tickets. Reach out to hello@malacarne.co for more info.
The immigrant artist team is led by Alice Gosti (Italy), and includes composer Tomo Nakayama (Japan), lighting designer Chih-Hung Shao (Taiwan), costume designer Ophir El-Boher (Israel) and performers Marceline Nyakirindo (Munyamulenge/Democratic Republic of Congo), Sofiya Kostareva (Ukraine & Russia), Margaret Luxamon Hotchkiss (Thailand), and Prasti Purdum (Indonesia).
Accessibility Information: Each tour will last one hour and will require walking, standing, and climbing stairs. Select show times will incorporate use of the elevator instead of the stairs.