Telephonic

Telephonic is an ongoing project by three dancers and one visual artist.

Dancers choreograph a piece in response to the artist.
Every week, the artist creates a piece in return.

14 August 2015: Impetus

30 seconds in Balboa Park
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21 August 2015

Thread

Charcoal on paper
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Threads // Shadows

Videos, 1:51 / 1:34 / 1:43

29 August 2015

Hand and Foot

Rubber glove, corn kernels, cake frosting, cupcake sprinkles, painter's tape, red ribbon, LED lights, plastic containers
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Dante

Video, 2:01

4 September 2015

Collective Canvas

Acrylic and spray paint applied with rules onto two canvases. ("do a lumberjack motion" "give the canvas a high five" "write some words")
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11 September 2015

What You Want

Video, 2:56

1 November 2015

Freedom

Animated GIF
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About This Project

  • Telephonic is a collaborative project that explores the act of a "guided" loss in translation. The quartet of creators (three performing dancer & choreographers and one illustrator & designer) set a regular (usually weekly) deadline to craft a response to an ever growing step-stair of call-and-response. With each new project building on the last, the body of work exists beyond the final products themselves and explores the space between creation, reaction, and interaction. Using a wide breadth of visual and audio media, Telephonic strives to keep a connecting fiber between each piece.
  • Trixi Agaio grew up dancing traditional Igorot dances from the Philippines. Her first ties to dance were tradition, music, singing and community. In 2011, she graduated Magna Cum Laude in Dance and Psychology at UC San Diego. She is a founding member of the Collective Dance Collective based in San Diego and New York. She is a core dancer for Visionary Dance Theatre, where she also teaches and directs musicals. She loves teaching and working with children: you can learn a lot from them, and if you disagree, you haven't been paying attention. She's had the opportunity to dance in many projects including "Victor Charlie," an award-winning dansical presented in SD's Fringe Festival by [the] movement initiative, a surfer musical choreographed by Jaqcues Heim, choreographer of Cirque du Soleil's "Ka" and various "Trolley Dances" put on by San Diego Dance Theatre. The Collective Dance Collective has showcased work in San Diego's Young Choreographers Prize, Raw artists and in artist symposiums to name a few. Her San Diego base is excited to be working with such an eclectic artist who is perfectly apt in what we want to explore. Cheers to the all the weirdness, awkwardness, mental blocks and tangents they'll share along the way. Hopefully it will make us better artists. If not, at least it will be interesting.
  • Jonathan Arreola is originally from Lake Elsinore, CA and is currently a graduate student in Education Studies at the University of California San Diego. He received a B.A. in Dance and a B.A. in Mathematics for Secondary Education from UC San Diego in 2013. Before his time at university Jonathan was trained for several years in classical ballet. During his time in college he took on a leadership role as a representative for UCSD’s Department of Theatre and Dance. Over the past few years Jonathan has maintained an active presence in San Diego’s local dance community by participating in productions such as San Diego Dance Theater’s Trolley Dances, leading roles in San Diego Civic Youth Ballet productions of The Nutcracker and Cinderella, California Ballet’s production of Sleeping Beauty, and projects with Visionary Dance Theatre, The Movement Initiative, and Collective Dance Collective.
  • Arthur Huang started his dance training at UCSD. Thanks to its exceptional dance program and nurturing teachers, he was able to experience dance in all its different facets, from being a choreographer to being a dancer, from jazz to contemporary to dance theater, and realize that he loved them all. He graduated in 2010 with the Stewart Prize in Choreography. Arthur is also a co-founder of the company the Collective Dance Collective along with Trixi Agiao and four other friends. Since graduation, Arthur has danced in a variety of shows, from Trolley Dances to gay pride festivals to competing in San Diego’s Young Choreographer’s Prize.
  • Jasmine Wang is an illustrator and graphic designer based in San Diego. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Communication with a minor in Studio Art from UC San Diego in 2011. Jasmine continues her coursework in Graphic Design at San Diego City College, and in the fine arts at Watts Atelier of the Arts in Encinitas, CA. She has shown her design and illustrative work at a number of local shows in San Diego, including at the UC San Diego Sun God Festivals, Canyon Crest Academy, UC San Diego Cross Cultural Center, Graffiti Beach, Queen Bee's, the Chee-Chee club, and more. By day, Jasmine works as a program manager for the Arts and Digital arts programs at UC San Diego Extension.