Kathryn Claire - Video samples
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The following videos have been selected to show my most recent creative work along with past work that I feel connects to where I am today. I want to share through the medium of video my music, dance, lyrics and visual aesthetics.
"Proof Enough"- performed and filmed June 1st, 2024
I began working on this in the summer of 2023. This video was shot June 1st after I had initially performed it as a work in progress April 27th, 2024 for a small group of colleagues and friends. This video shows the piece in its entirety performed at Performance Works NW in Portland, OR. I worked on the piece in the space during the winter of 2024. Video shot by Jay Cosnett and lighting design by Jeff Forbes.
Experimentation/Improvisation - March 2024
I captured this experiment while working in the studio at Performance Works NW in Portland, OR. This was inspired by a poem "The Storytellers" that ended up getting cut from the piece. There is something so raw and unrefined in both the music and the dance that I find really interesting. This is one of the few longer videos I have that captures my experimentation process and the relationship between improvisation in music and dance.
"Weigh Me Down"- Released Sept. 1st, 2023
I shot the video for this song on the Oregon Coast. I am interested in natural images and am looking to use video in forthcoming live performance pieces. This captures my visual aesthetic well.
"The Fugue"- Released 2017
This video came from an image I had of a woman on the sand with a natural mandala around her head and her hair staked to the sand. I wrote the instrumental and this was the beginning of me leaning into the violin and strings to express something I saw visually first. The video was shot by Martin Vavra and was created in Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast.
"That Lesson"- Created in 2015
This video is important to return to because it was the first time I had created a dance piece to my own music. There was something so profound about dancing to my own words and music and I know that this piece is important on the path back to my current work.