Tattoo // 2000

Premiere 2000, Retrospective 2010

Premiered
2000
Location(s)
Choreography
Pat Graney
Music
Amy Denio
Ellen Fullman
Costumes
Frances Kenny
Lighting
Ben Geffen
Engineering
Jeff Gerson
Performers
Alison Cockrill
KT Niehoff
Amii LeGendre
Sandra Fann
Kim Root

Saiko sepia Tattoo skirt

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Hair Fling

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Tattoo Skirts

Tattoo Torsos

Lead commissioner is On the Boards (Seattle, WA); co-commissioners are Myrna Loy Center (Helena, MT) and Flynn Center (Burlington VT).

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Arts Pick | Dance | Tattoo
Tattoo, the latest work by Seattle-based dance maker Pat Graney, presents a series of vignettes that reflect on memory and women’s roles in cultures both primitive and contemporary. However, according to the choreographer, it’s best not to try and make sense of it all. Instead she suggests approaching the piece "as if you’re going into a gallery of images and just surrender to that experience. If you’re trying to figure out what each section means, I think you’ll get frustrated."

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Graney's Tattoo Beats Like A Heart
Tattoos as markings or as insistent beats -- in either case, attention-getting patterns -- informed the latest offering the Pat Graney Company brought from Seattle. Tattoo followed the more personal Faith and Sleep, seen here in previous years. Like anthropological inquiry, but with wily theatrical effects, the full-evening work Saturday at the Colony Theater delved into human connections throughout history.

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