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Embrace is the first video art production
of Surviving Jesse Productions, a company of artists dedicated to creating dance/theatre
works, multimedia pieces, and video art that explore human emotions and relationships.
Multimedia theatre and film are key to a 21st-century expression of alternative
perspectives on the way we love and live. As the age of modernism has given over
to the information age, we need to continue to explore how society represents itself
and communicates iconically, to explore the expressive possibilities in connecting
all the arts to share a positive vision. This was the guiding purpose in the making
of Embrace.
 Poetic
text, poignant dancing, and lush imagery interweave themes of identity, relationship,
love, and remembrance. In the intersecting stories of five friends, Embrace reveals
that these themes are best realized by taking risks. These stories bare the realizations
of a storyteller, whose fear kept him from the magical possibilities of fully loving
the men and women in his life, expose the thoughts of a contemporary artist regretting
the loss of her lover, and witness the exploration of a scholar analyzing the history
of two paintings by early 17th century artist, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
In revelations about their lives, the contemporary artist and the storyteller bring
to light connections between the memory, the acceptance, and the potential of the
human heart while the scholar reflects on artistic passions and an act of compromise.
Through exquisite Caravaggio paintings, poignant dancing, lyrical text, and the affecting
music of David Darling, Peter Jones, and Mike Vargas, the disparate tales weave together
and reveal themselves. This provocative, abstract work encourages the embrace of
all possibilities.
Embrace was written and directed by Rodger
Blum, choreographed by William Seigh, and featuring performances by Christopher Mehmed,
Candice Leigh Salyers, and Christina Tsoules Soriano. PeggyRae Johnson was the associate
director and script consultant. Embrace has recently finished post-production
and is in the process of publication and submission to dance and camera and film
festivals. |
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