She Breathes Fire
About:
She Breathes Fire dismantles patriarchal systems and toxic gender binaries by recontextualizing the Hero’s Journey through a feminist lens. I have created a fantasy world of my own imagination that explores the heroine’s journey throughout many ages, characters and landscapes. The concept for the project was created while I attended the ArtHouse Holland residency in the Netherlands in October 2022. The project offers its own folkloric tale seen through the eyes of women and provides an alternative history that is in stark comparison to the heroism society has internalized.
Timeline:
October 28 - November 2, 2024, the She Breathes Fire Opera Workshop took place at HERE Arts Center in partnership with The Why Collective in New York City. This weeklong development workshop included 9 interdisciplinary artists that explored creating a new opera for voice and movement. The work-in-progress performance was presented to a sold out audience on November 2, 2024.
February - October 2024, the piece “3 Postures” was commissioned by Brooklyn Motion Capture Dance Ensemble to be written for solo voice, movement, electronics and motion capture technology. The piece is an origin story of the race of Saeya in the She Breathes Fire universe.
November 2023 the Prologue written for voice, string trio and electronics was performed at Berklee College of Music at the Splice Electroacoustic Music Festival.
October 2023, the first iteration of the work titled She Breathes Fire, was written for women and non-binary vocal octet and utilizes electronics through vocal sampling and manipulation. The piece premiered in partnership with Owen/Cox Dance Group in Kansas City, MO after receiving an Artistic Innovations award from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mid America Arts Alliance.
Stay tuned for news regarding upcoming performances and developments in the world of She Breathes Fire.
She Breathes Fire: Opera Development Workshop
October-November 2024
HERE Arts Center and The Why Collective, New York City
Photography by David Ross Lawn
3 Postures: She Breathes Fire
2024
Commissioned by Brooklyn Motion Capture Dance Ensemble
DOCUMENTATION COMING SOON
She Breathes Fire: Prologue
Performed Live at Berklee College of Music, Splice Electroacoustic Festival
November 2023
Composed by Stacy Busch
Performed by Stacy Busch, Sascha Groschang, Boris Vayner, Zsolt Eder
She Breathes Fire Contemporary Ballet:
October 2023
Commissioned by Owen/Cox Dance Group
Photography by Lindsey Clipner
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MASS Live Performance and art Exhibition
Mass: Live performance and exhibition
Multimedia artist and performer Stacy Busch is collaborating with Australian experimental artist Jade Suine and choreographer/dancer Tianna Morton to create Mass, a new music concert and exhibition. The project is born out of Busch’s recent, month long journey at the Listhus Artist Residency in northern Iceland, in which she experienced silence, isolation and extreme natural landscapes, which allowed Busch to uncover a more honest connection with her artistic voice and connect it to her spiritual practice. The full live performance is an evening length concert of new music largely composed during her time in Iceland.
Gilda's Club KC brings together Owen/Cox Dance Group, Charlotte Street Foundation, poet Jen Harris and composer Stacy Busch for a multi-disciplinary production of "Collective: Our Stories of Cancer."
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