the first presentation

Seen/Unseen

performance art presentation

November 26-December 3, 2010

Live Performance - December 3-7PM

Seen/Unseen is a media driven performance art installation that allows the audience to observe and interact with the work from a multiplicity of angles. It challenges patrons to really “see,” taking their participation out of passivity into active participation and engagement. When we can only see through a portal that is no larger than a peephole, what do we become as artists and audience?

Using video/sound collage and performance, Rodney Veal, independent choreographer/media artist, hopes to challenge the viewers to “see” the unseen power they posses to impact and change how the performance unfolds, and ultimately how they engage with others. Seen/Unseen, ruminations on life, death and race, will only exist in the ephemeral state in which all performances exist with only the documentation serving as the finished work of art.

Bio

Rodney Veal, an independent choreographer and interdisciplinary artist, serves as adjunct faculty for both Stivers School of the Performing Arts and Sinclair Community College. He is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University with a B.S in Political Science and Visual Arts. He recently received his M.F.A in Choreography from The Ohio State University, where he served as the Chief of Staff to the Council of Graduate Students President and as Senator to the Faculty/Student Senate representing the Fine Arts Graduate Students.  He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Ohio Dance and Involvement Advocacy/Blue Sky Dayton Project.

Mr. Veal is the recipient of several MCACD grants and fellowships. Several of his works have been performed as a part of the Ohio Dance Festival. He was one of five artists chosen nationwide to participate in the Blue Sky Dayton Project Artist in Residency Program held in collaboration with the University of Dayton in the summer of 2009.

Mr. Veal recently choreographed the musical Once Upon on This Island for the Sinclair Community College 2010-11 Theatre season.  And collaborated on the Performance art piece Of A River, with Violinist Shaw Pong Lui presented at the  Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center Winter Garden in the summer of 2010.

Upcoming projects include a solo multi-media performance exhibition at the Springfield Museum of Art, Reveal: Five Zones of Beauty in the summer of 2011.