bright unbearable realities
April 26, 27, 28
Friday and Saturday 8 pm
Sunday 2 pm
Dairy Arts Center (2590 Walnut St., Boulder)
Reserved Seat Ticketing: Adults $30
Kids, Seniors, Students, Groups of 4+: $26
Dairy Box Office: 303-444-7328
Creation: Issac Endo
Performer Collaborators: Emily Clemson, Issac Endo, Laurel Johnson, Whitney Moore, Valerie Morris, Michelle Randolph, Nancy Smith, Anastasia Timina, James Tindle, Midnite Townsend
Frequent Flyers’ newest show, Enérgeia: bright unbearable realities, will feature guest creator, Issac Endo (nee Koji Endo). They are a queer, Japanese-American, Boulder-native with an illustrious career in circus, performance art, and film, who began their journey at Frequent Flyers when they were 7 years of age. This is a truly full-circle opportunity for both Frequent Flyers and for Issac.
Issac will perform alongside six of Frequent Flyers’ professional company members, including Artistic Director, Nancy Smith, and two of Frequent Flyers’ pre-professional teen students – a thrilling opportunity for these graduating high-school seniors.
Using projection onto alternative surfaces, invented aerial apparatus, pulleys, a moving plexiglass reflective dance floor, and small boxes that transform the set and the performers, Enérgeia will be unlike any other Frequent Flyers’ performance.
The performances runs 90 minutes with an intermission and is appropriate for all ages.
Issac Endo Artist statement for Enérgeia:
I work to find the energy in the performers, the part of them that is so brilliant that I cannot look away, but to continue looking would blind me. I will elevate this on-stage so that an audience can see them the way I do.
Issac Endo (nee Koji Endo), a Boulder native, is a Japanese-American, Queer, multidisciplinary artist working in both the arts and entertainment industries. Initially trained as an interpreter of circus and dance, they were invited to become the National Circus School’s (in Montreal, Canada) first student of direction and dramaturgy under the guidance of Howard Richard, where he focused on “what does it mean when your medium is Other People”. Graduating in 2019, Their work increasingly focuses in environmental/scenic realization and the exploration of objects and spaces. Creating props, costumes, scenography, and apparatuses, Issac seeks ways an environment can inform and shape how people interact with, inhabit, and blur the distinction between performer/spectator and object/subject. Issac has worked under directors including Carol Prieur, Marlene Millar, Anthony Venisse, Kyra Jean Green, and Claudel Doucet, and ongoing projects include: the Valby Ruta Project, a film circus collective; A Safer Space, workshops exploring group dynamics and nonverbal communication; and Warm Up, an immersive movement jam. Photo Credit: Meredith Adelaide
