Cloudy Library

Free Pool Performance Collective

LOCATION: Salt Lake City, Utah

SYNOPSIS: Join us in a place where the moving body responds to the personification of the space around them. Each location becomes an embodiment of an individual’s emotions, thoughts, and experiences; essentially an autobiographical canvas.

The installation begins with a wheel of chance. Through a click of your mouse you are directed into a new landscape. From here, you are invited to make choices to navigate through a variety of immersive, virtual sensations and explore moments of movement, dialogue, imagery, and soundscapes. You could be drowning in balloons or stuck in a pantry. Through these decisions, you may meet 7 characters in 6 distinct places but you decide how you get there, how much time you spend, and where you go next.

Created by artists from across the country, all with ties to Utah, this piece guarantees you will reconsider how you examine and inhabit the spaces around you.

GENRE: Theatre, Dance, World Premiere, Original Script, Audience Interaction, Avant-Garde/Experimental

CONTENT RATING: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)

ARTIST BIO: Rachel (Rae) Luebbert is a movement artist and arts administrator based in Salt Lake where she works in dance advocacy for Dance/USA, academic advising for fine arts students at the University of Utah, dance education, and art making. Rachel graduated from the University of Utah with a BFA in Modern Dance and a BA in Spanish. In 2019, Rachel produced a show entitled "Rosie" surrounding the complexity of the color pink and its relation to gender, identity, and storytelling. Rachel has presented and performed work with Queer Spectra Arts Festival (Salt Lake), Dance Place (DC), Juanita Winston Dance Company (Maryland), and the Hirshorn Smithsonian Museum (DC). She has created multiple screendances with filmmaker Taylor Mott including “At 10:30pm” and “Mustard and Other Things.”

Cece Otto is a performing artist based in New York City. She has been seen on stage at 54 Below, 59E59 Theaters, The New Ohio Theater, The Drama League, Pioneer Theater Company, Salt Lake Acting Company, and more. She is a co-founder of WHO’S LOUIS?, a performance collective specializing in devised theatre. In 2017, she produced & performed her original piece, Hyperthymesia, in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with support from the University of Utah. She currently works for The Public Theater, and Elsie Management. MA Arts Administration Southern Utah University; BFA Acting from the University of Utah. ceceotto.com

Ali Lorenz is a freelance mover, collaborator, and collage-creating artist. A west-coast dweller, Ali’s recent artistic endeavors stem from the Salt Lake and Seattle areas. Her research seeks reclamation of visceral memory through abstract structure. Currently they enjoy a low-stakes, stream-of-conscious practice and dancing with their pets on zoom.

BethanyRose Boutwell is originally from Salt Lake City, Utah. Trained in contemporary dance movement, floor and aerial acrobatics. She is most prominently known for her adaptability and creativity within the performing arts. From circus production choreographer for Aeris Aerial Arts and 90&9 Non-profit, to now an international performing artist touring with DIAVOLO | Architecture In Motion, in Los Angeles, California.

Brandt Garber is an actor/musician currently residing in Portland, Oregon. He studied acting at The University of Utah where he performed in various plays such as "Our Country's Good", "The Two Noble Kinsmen', and "You Never Can Tell". Since then, he's been performing in some short film projects, and working on an album titled "Logans Run".

Faryn Kelly is a multi-disciplinary artist, working with a palette of movement, lighting, costume, set, and sound interests and ideas. Originally from Lexington, KY, Faryn graduated with a BFA in Dance from Wright State University in Dayton, OH.Faryn is the lighting supervisor at Dance Place: a dance theater and school for dance located on the lands now known as Northeast Washington, DC. Outside of Dance Place, she has worked with DMV companies including Extreme Lengths Productions, darlingdance, and Jane Franklin Dance, and most recently, Faryn was selected as one of the 2020 New Releases Festival choreographers. Among her favorite things are travel, instant film, haute couture, space, and chocolate covered espresso beans.

Kara Brody is a native of Detroit, Michigan and received her BFA in dance from Wayne State University. She relocated to Chicago working with companies Khecari, Lucky Plush Productions and The Cambrians, and has worked with artists Erin Kilmurray, Amanda Maraist, Ayako Kato, Kevin Iega Jeff, Shannon Alvis, and Alice Klock. Brody guest teaches at University of Chicago frequently and has been on faculty at Virtual Dance Lab, Visceral Dance, Dovetail Studios, The Cambrians’ Winter and Summer intensives, Lucky Plush Productions, Brighton Dance Festival, and The Actors Gymnasium. This past year, she has guest taught at Northwestern University & Rutgers University and performed with Danceable Projects | Erick Montes and Jodie Randolph Dance.

WEBSITE: www.freepoolcollective.com

SOCIAL MEDIA: https://www.instagram.com/freepoolcollective/