reflect/defect
(2004, 30 min)
Premiere: April 2003, Northwest New Works Festival, On the Boards, Seattle WA and Bumbershoot Festival, September 2003
Concept and direction: Zeke Keeble and Amy O’Neal
Performers: Amy O’Neal, Zeke Keeble, and Ellie Sandstrom
Choreography and video: Amy O’Neal
Music: Zeke Keeble
Lighting design: Julie Keenan
Styled by: Amy O’Neal
reflect/defect is a dance/music/video work inspired by human compensation for anxiety and what we perceive to be “defective” about ourselves. The things we do to make ourselves feel better are often funny and very tragic. We eat, smoke, drink, party too much, exercise too much. We were faces that say we are fine while we are constantly freaking out internally. Keeble’s live and recorded, kinesthetically charged score (with drumset and electronic effects pedals) that is driving, cinematic, and at times, whimsical, both accompanies and directs the course of action.
“reflect/defect was hot! The music was off the Richtor Scale!” Rennie Harris, 2003