Impossible Maps

spector of my eye–
sun catches moon
wave touches cloud
lion lunges for lamb
self brims with other

who are you to resist
the moon tugging at your sleeve
for the leaving and the leaving
the crying and the crying.

Impossible Maps is a full-evening dance work that journeys through grief and transformation. The inhabitants of the piece take a pilgrimage across a landscape through the liminality of loss in search of awe–the connection to vastness that pulls us from the brink of horror.
In the midst of nature’s cyclical patterns that wreck ships and build sand dunes, humanity’s constructed systems that push outliers to the edges and connect us to the design of our past, we map the imaginal space of the afterlife. In the process we reshape ourselves around who we’ve lost and chart a new course. One that allows us to carry them with us into the still unknown.
Cast:
Ellie van Bever
Sara Caplan
Chloe Dylla
Rainbow Fletcher
Nicole Flores
Madeleine Gregor
Maisy Neill
Janet Nguyen
Alana O Rogers
Guest: Devin Muñoz

Set Contribution from: Julie Alexander

C. Asa Call Bio
they/them

I am an assemblage artist making work at the cross-section of dance, film, installation, and poetry. I moved to Seattle shortly after earning my BA in Studio Arts and Art History from Wichita State and within a few years co-founded Coriolis Dance with colleague Natascha Greenwalt. I served as Co-artistic Director for 14 years dancing, creating work, and developing a movement research method called Postballet with Natascha and Mariko Nagashima.

My dance works span from site-specific installations to films to traditional theater works. The full-evening installation dance work What is Home an Obscure Kingdom an Opera Buffa It’s You Always You was a multi-stage interactive installation performance, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum and supported by Velocity’s Creative Residency in 2018.

I have a long history of collaboration with artists across disciplines, as well, most recently with sculptor Sarah Fetterman at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Overall, my art life has been an embarrassment of riches with experiences too numerous to name. Currently, I am the host of The Shed, a performance installation space in the Georgetown neighborhood that facilitates residencies and events for artists with complex practices.