Drought:1200 was a dramatic performance featuring professional dancers and musicians collaborating with students from the California Drought class. The dance combined spectacular visual components with sound, including bodies plunging into a barrel of water, floating cutaway text billboards, sound collages, and original music. This collaboration created an interdisciplinary dance program that evoked the startling statistics, data, and disruptive reality created when water becomes scarce in the state of California. 

Featuring:

Naka Dance Company: Jose Navarrete and Debby Kajiyama with Kevin O’Connor, Amara Tabor-Smith, and Emily Leap
Kristina Dutton, Violin
Kanoko Nishi Smith, Koto
Crystal Pascucci, Cello

 

Directed by Kim Anno

Professor, Painting/Drawing and Fine Arts

California College of the Arts

 

 

 

Born in Los Angeles, Kim Anno is a painter, photographer, and video artist whose work has been collected by museums nationally and shown internationally. Her work was recently acquired by the Berkeley Art Museum, Crocker Museum, and the Stanford Hospital. She has been a professor at California College of the Arts since 1996. Her recent interests and expertise have been in the intersection of art and science, specifically in aesthetic issues surrounding climate change and water.

She is a recipient of the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Purchase award from San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Eureka Foundation’s Fleishhaker Fellowship, Open Circle Foundation fellowship, and the Berkeley Film Foundation Fellowship. She is currently working collaboratively with an ensemble of video artists and composers called Ice on the High and finishing a long-term video work, Men and Women in Water Cities.