{"id":6478,"date":"2017-10-11T03:08:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T11:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=6478"},"modified":"2017-10-17T19:03:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T03:03:14","slug":"bloodyvox-floods-rice-auditorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/bloodyvox-floods-rice-auditorium\/","title":{"rendered":"BloodyVox Floods Rice Auditorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alexandra Martin | Entertainment Editor<br \/>\nPhoto by Nick Brooks | Freelance Photographer<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nearly every seat in Rice Auditorium was filled this past Friday for the second show in the Smith Fine Arts Series 41st season, \u2014 BodyVox: BloodyVox, an imaginative and talented dance ensemble portraying the portentous lore that stems from people\u2019s darkest fears and surrounds the month of October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BodyVox is a dance company from Portland, Oregon, known for its dramatic imagery built through dance with a bit of a slapstick, theatrical twist. After being founded in 1997, BodyVox has attained an impressive number of accolades for performances in nine award winning films, three operas and 30 original shows, among many other achievements. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the opening of the show at Rice, a singular gentleman emerged from the drawn velvety curtains in what appeared to be the get-up of a detective from a \u201840\u2019s movie: trench coat, fedora, brief case \u2014 you get the idea. After some bizarre tight-lipped gesticulation toward the audience, he whipped a microphone and a cell out of his pocket and, using an application similar to Mouth Mover, began to present the night\u2019s entertainment. He coaxed out a couple laughs from the audience by switching to an iPad as opposed to his phone and after a couple minutes, disappeared behind the curtain. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each following entertainment piece alternated between the 11 performers present at Rice Auditorium while employing an array of props for each dance to drive home the theme \u201cBloodyVox.\u201d In the dance, \u201cDormez Vous,\u201d which means \u201cyou sleep\u201d in French, a bed was utilized to give the illusion of people sleeping and creatures of the night spilling out from underneath the bed. Piece by piece, the performances were aided by costumes and miscellaneous objects on the stage in addition to the choreography and music, maintaining the same nebulous feel throughout the show. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While there was not exactly blood in \u201cBloodyVox,\u201d when paired with a fog machine, flashing lights, ominous music and put near pitch black lighting over the audience, the evening\u2019s entertainment casted a hematic shadow in the best way possible. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BodyVox wrapped up the first portion of the Smith Fine Art Series fall season. The entertainment will resume Jan. 12 with Celtic Journey: Sounds and Soundtracks, featuring Western\u2019s own Dirk Freymuth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at journalentertainment@wou.edu<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra Martin | Entertainment Editor Photo by Nick Brooks | Freelance Photographer Nearly every seat in Rice Auditorium was filled this past Friday for the second show in the Smith Fine Arts Series 41st season, \u2014 BodyVox: BloodyVox, an imaginative and talented dance ensemble portraying the portentous lore that stems from people\u2019s darkest fears and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1017,"featured_media":6479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}