Dark Dining 08

July 11 and 12 at 8 p.m.

JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL EVENT TO LAUNCH KOFEST 2008's SEASON ON THE THEME OF

"FOOD"
appetites, atitudes and politics

THE EVENT
Blindfolded guests enter the space and are seated at long tables. A splendid multi-course banquet of locally produced food and drink is set before them. Savoring the sensuous feast, diners tease out the mysteries of the menu. The room is an ever-changing olfactory, tactile and sonic landscape, an installation of wind, water, organic material, music, virtuosic performance and movement. At the evening’s close, diners are handed a sealed card in which the menu and performing artists are revealed.

For further information visit www.darkdiningprojects.com/index.htm

DARK DINING PROJECTS
Enormously successful in New York City and elsewhere, Dark Dining Projects has won raves from diners and has appeared in such diverse media as ABC News, NY 1 News, Univision, Time Out, USA Today, New York Times, Village Voice, Metromix, Cool Hunting, Toxic Pop, Theatre Journal and Contact Quarterly Dance Journal.

DANA SALISBURY
Dana Salisbury, winner of New York Dance and Performance Award (a “Bessie”), is a multi-disciplinary artist whose investigations span dance, video, language, site-specific performance/installation and visual art. Her work, Dance Insider has reported “evidences her acute consciousness, her keen multi-disciplinary attention to detail.” The Village Voice described her work as offering “trenchant dispatches from a life of keeping eyes and mind wide open.” Her dances and videos have been seen in New York at PS 122, Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, University Settlement and the 92nd Street Y. She has created site-specific works for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn. Her visual art has been exhibited widely in museums and galleries.

For the last several years, inspired by the sensate and imaginative life of the blind, Salisbury has been exploring non-visual perception. Her dance production, “Whole-Body-Seer” (2004) offered experiential equivalents of vision without sight. A quotation from John Hull’s, Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness helped shape her thinking: “I do not think of myself so much as a blind person, which would define me with reference to sighted people and as lacking something, but simply as a whole-body-seer. A blind person is simply someone in whom the specialist function of sight is now devolved upon the whole body, and no longer specialized in a particular organ.” Dark Dining Projects celebrates "whole-body-seeing".

LOGISTICS
The event will take place in the Holden Theatre on the Amherst College campus.

You MUST make a reservation for this event, as we need to have a conversation with you regarding dietary restrictions.
SEATING IS VERY LIMITED SO RESERVE EARLY!
Absolutely no reservations will be taken after July 7.
Tickets are $48 for Adults. $45 for Students/Seniors.
You can make a reservation by clicking HERE or by calling (413) 427-6147.

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Do you have an idea for this event, which in keeping with the Ko Festival's theme of "FOOD: Desires and Appetites,"
will feature locally produced food?
If so, Artist, Dana Salisbury invites you to brainstorm with her.

Send her an email with your ideas by clicking HERE.