Audience is immersed in the vision as catalyst – juxtaposition of sculptural stage, live movement, video mapping.
SATORI Arts Presents MAN in the BOX
Oct 4,5, 7pm. Oct 6 2pm
815 Slamar Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
saotirarts.org/events-2

The journey began with an original performance by Brady at Franklin Furnace in New York in 1979, then Three Sinks Gallery in 2003, an Satori, St.Louis, in 2011, in October of 2019 at odc Dance Theater in the Mission district San Francisco. CA, in collaboration with Monica Newsam. Each performance creates an opportunity to push the work, to evolve the thinking that drives the movements and images. Brady's approach to stage as sculpture creates physically challenging environments that demand movement invention.

In the current deeply complex evolution of Man in the Box, Brady, choreographer/dancer/aerial artist Monica Newsam, and video artist Zlatko Cosic collaborate to stunning effect.Brady and Newsam have collaborated now for nearly a decade resulting in a highly developed physical choreography. Recently Brady and Cosic have merged ideas and passion creating video to support this requiem honoring and at times cherishing the individual challenges, reversals, failings, insights, generosity and forward thrusts in the journey to wisdom.The audience pays witness to the collision of one's final moments with the recollections of the younger self – and the life well lived. In the dialogue between one's youthful past and aging now, the two performers create movement vocabulary through the complex sculptural space. They share youthful insights reminding us that wisdom is not found solely in years earned, while recognizing that age does provide the young and ambitious needed perspective.