| Sean Feit Artist's Website >> Sean Feit is a classically trained composer and multi-instrumentalist (piano, violin, voice, strings) working in performance art and movement-based theater. He studied music composition at California Institute of the Arts (BFA, 1993), focusing on Renaissance polyphonic vocal music and Cornell University (Graduate Fellowship, 1995-6), beginning to work with installation and psychological aspects of the performance experience. Before settling in San Francisco, he lived for a year in a Zen monastery, absorbing the radical stillness and listening of that ancient practice. In SF, he began dancing, practicing the somatic investigative discipline of Authentic Movement, and writing music for experimental performance. He co-directed RUJEKO Performance Collaboration with Keren Abrams from 1997-2005 and produced six full-length pieces integrating site-specific movement, live music, improvisation and spoken word. RUJEKO performed in public spaces in the city and in nearby rural/park land, creating a ritual performance language deeply informed by meditative practice, and became known for their willingness to stretch time, expectations and comfort in pursuit of transformation. In addition to solo and directing work, Sean has danced or made music with Scott Wells, Angus Balbernie, The Bodycartography Project, Seth Eisen, AVY K Productions, and Leslie Seiters Little Known Dance Theater, for whom he created the score for The Way to Disappear, 2005. Currently Sean is a member of Keith Hennessy’s critically acclaimed postmodern company, Circo Zero, working in San Francisco and France. His music for 2008’s Sol Niger was called “brilliantly charged” (SF Bay Guardian), and “bold, dazzling and filled with fresh insights” (Beyond Chron). Sean’s music for Sol Niger won an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Best Sound/Text 2007-8. * “brilliantly charged accompaniment” (Robert Avila, SF Bay Guardian, 9/26/07) “His music is bold, dazzling and filled with fresh insights.” (Lee Hartgrave, Beyond Chron, 9/28/07) O1C Performances: Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers with Melanie DeMore |
