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Dynamic X-Change begins for Fall at St. John's
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Gearing up for 2006-07 Season
It may be hot in Houston, but fall is almost here, and at SDC we've been planning all summer and the new season is upon us! CORE Performance Company is back in the studio working on the finishing touches for their new piece, Corazon Abriendo (Heart Opening.) They're taking it on tour in Mexico to 3 cities before the Houston premiere November 17-18 at Heinen Theater. Before they head to Mexico, they'll drop by the Bayou City Arts Festival on October 14-15 to perform a site specific piece in and around the reflecting pool downtown.
Other programs at SDC start up in September as well. Dynamic X-Change programs in partnership with schools and social service organizations will begin to offer movement classes to underserved youth. There will be no Fieldwork workshop this fall, but Field programming will return in the Spring. Look for more information on these performances as we get closer!
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Collaborating visual artist, Walter "Chip" Morris, Jr.
Walter F. “Chip” Morris, Jr. (Set Designer), is an anthropologist and Coordinator of Mexican Initiatives for Aid to Artisans. He has been studying and writing about Maya culture since 1972. Fluent in several Maya languages, Morris is a collector, cataloguer, and curator of Maya textile collections in the United States and abroad and has contributed to media programs on the Maya as producer, scriptwriter, and consultant. In 1983 he received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship Award for his innovative study of the symbology of Maya textiles and his significant participation in the formation of the weaver’s society, Sna Jolobil.
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Although he has been making mobiles since he was a teenager in New Jersey when he was asked to create sculptures for the lobby of Watchung Regional High School and did an exhibit of mobiles in 1983 for La Galería, the only art gallery near his home in Chiapas at the time, Morris started to focus on mobile sculptures at the start of the new millennium. He created another exhibit in the Galería in 2002 and at the Galería El Cerillo in 2004. He has received commissions to design mobiles for private homes and public spaces in Mexico and has recently sold a mobile for the lobby of the American Express Building next to Ground Zero. In January 2005 he participated in the Beyond Boundaries Exhibit at Ramscale Gallery in New York and in July he had a one man show at the Galería El Cerillo.
He is presently coordinating a number of artisan development programs in Mexico, including the Lead Free Project that is teaching artisans how to profit from using lead-free glazes in their pottery. Publications and papers include A Millennium of Weaving in Chiapas (1984, reprints 1986, 1988, 1nd 1991), Living Maya (with photography by Jeffrey J. Foxx, 1987), and Handmade Money: Latin American Artisans in the Marketplace (1997). Geometrías Indígenas – Diseños de los textiles de Chiapas will be published in July of this year.
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