Fla Tigre
Fla Tigre …
Fla Tigre is a collective of dancers and musicians who seek to liberate body-minds through fierce hybridity in loving motion. Within the moving human body, Fla Tigre intersects the flamboyant vulnerability of flamingos and the predatory prowess of tigers, investigating how we can empower keen awareness with unifying grace? We immerse in dissolving limiting beliefs of opposing forces in a larger metaphor calling for the harmonization of internal ecosystems. When we forget we are nature, we lose sight of the endless complexity and hybridity of gorgeous natures we embody.
In a cosmic musical landscape, Fla Tigre embraces primal intuition and queer nature, dissolving binaries that lead us to believe we are separate, and advocating the dynamic, complex beauty that pulses within our unique interrelated natures. We are all hybridity in motion with the choice to break free from the inner confining patterns and constructs that keep us in opposition. Knowing our liberation is bound within, Fla Tigre is a physical-musical meditation devoted to processing a more liberated future.
Performers:
Alycia Scott Zollinger
Alycia Scott Zollinger is a healing facilitator, somatic educator, and performance artist dedicated to the interconnection between mind, body, and spirit. She has performed around the globe in spaces ranging from theaters in Russia to balconies in Guatemala, a graveyard in Mexico, desert plateaus in Southern Utah, the streets of Seattle and art galleries throughout the United States. Rooted in intentional movement as a mode of poetic intervention and connection, she weaves her roots in dance, yoga, innate ritual, Bioenergetics and Butoh through all of her offerings. She is honored to have a private practice in Psychosomatic Healing Facilitation serving clients in Seattle and around the world.
Melia Dodge
Melia Dodge (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist currently based out of Seattle. Her work and interests span from painting, collage and costume design to free form and structured movement practices. Most recently she has been working to discover the many intersections of all of these mediums, creating in April a video piece called "Coalesce" that showcased her freestyle dancing, painting, costume/set design skills and collaborative musical score. This year she was introduced and deeply moved by the practice of Butoh, learning from and collaborating with Salish Sea Butoh and Interdisciplinary Artists in Motion in both group and solo performances. Alongside her art practice, Melia is informed by her years long work as a Disability Support Partner where she empowers youth on the autism spectrum as an advocate, ally and care-giver. She is passionate about expanding access to the arts for this community and works to support artistic inquiry in the children and families she works with. Next year she will be attending Gage Academy of Art for a year long Atelier program where she will grow her skills as a multimedia artist. She hopes to take these skills and utilize them to deepen community connection, advocate for more inclusive art opportunities and expand on her combined dancing and visual arts practice.
Hana Shiozaki
hana (they/them) is a facilitator of healing and multidisciplinary performance artist of japanese and irish lineages. they are a student of movement, medicine, nature, and storytelling.
as a massage therapist, reiki practitioner, and dedicated student of butoh, they find endless wonder in the integration of their land-based movement and healing practices.
through all of their mediums, they investigate and explore the liminal worlds, bridging where we are and the possibilities of what we can create.
Leanna Keith
A freelance flutist, artist, improviser, and composer in the Seattle area, Leanna Keith (she/they) delights in creating sound experiences that make audiences laugh, cry, and say: “I didn’t know the flute could do that!” Her performance artworks have focused on cultural connection and the breaking of audience/performer boundaries. She is dedicated to playing music by composers who are still living, and advocates for the usage of music as social activism. Her latest album which she composed, performed, recorded and mixed, TAROT Album, released in 2021. Leanna is the professor of flute at Cornish College of the Arts.
Stephanie Wood
Stephanie Wood is a sound artist, therapeutic/sacred sound practitioner and healing justice activist with eclectic ambient-to-noise compositions. With a pantheon of gongs, DIY instruments and sound effects she incorporates silence, improvisation and collective experience.
Fla Tigre Performance Offerings
Sneak Peek Work in Progress Showing | Wednesday, October 19th | Taoist Studies Center
The Seattle Butoh Festival | Saturday, November 19th | @ eXit Space | theNEST | NOD Theater
Support Fla Tigre:
We are cultivating magic to share with you through body, sound, and spirit. In the process, we would be honored to receive your support through donations for rehearsal space rental, costume and set making, as well as artist stipends. Every bit helps. Click below to support Fla Tigre.
