Shadow Tender
Premiere: Scenofest, WSD 2017, Taipei, Taiwan - July 2017
US Premiere: Liber II, The Butoh College 2019: Performance Series, The Headwaters Theatre, Portland, Oregon - April 2019
Shadow Tender is a performance project that combines physical theatre and wearable sculpture to externalize the parts of ourselves we fear and repress in order to engage a dialogue and promote individual and social healing.
Carl Jung described the Shadow as the aspect of the psyche in which we store those parts of ourselves that we do not wish to acknowledge - things that make us feel ashamed, frightened, weak, or powerless. In rejecting our own Shadows, we unconsciously project them onto others, creating monsters and enemies that are more revealing of our own darkness than anything else.
Shadow Tender is both a performance and a teaching methodology focusing on how we construct, project, and can compassionately confront and transmute the monstrous within ourselves and society. Jung identified Shadow projection as one of the roots of discrimination against marginalized communities. The political and socio-ecological events of the past year in the US and abroad have made it evident that there is a profound need for dialogue with the personal and collective Shadow self, inciting a sense of urgency for the creation of Shadow Tender.
Director/Designer/Performer: Natasha Kolosowsky
Co-Director: Aurelia Cohen
Dancer/Choreographer: Magda Kaczmarska
Performer/Designer: Maria Thomas
Sound Design: Adam Cooper-Terán
Shadow Tender - WSD 2017, Scenofest - Taipei, Taiwan
Shadow Tender Mask Prototype
Mask Design: Maria Thomas
Armor Design: Sophia Constance
Model: Magda Kaczmarska
Photographer: Shane Phillips
Shadow Tender Mask/Costume Prototype
Mask/Costume Design: Natasha Kolosowsky
Model: Magda Kaczmarska
Photographer: Shane Phillips
Shadow Tender Mask Prototype
Designer: Natasha Kolosowsky
Model: Maria Thomas
Photographer: Shane Phillips
Shadow Tender - WSD 2017 Scenofest - Taipei, Taiwan
Shadow Tender -- The Jungian Shadow
Director: Natasha Kolosowky
Choreographer: Magda Kaczmarska
Dancers: Magda Kaczmarska, Natasha Kolosowsky, Maria Thomas
Video: Potoo Media
Shadow Tender WSD2017 Trailer
Loosely inspired by the concept of the Jungian Shadow, Shadow Tender is about learning to breathe with the full self – untangling the twisted muscle and locked joints, holding monsters close and tight, offering compassion instead of fear, rejection, or judgment.
A working version of Shadow Tender premiered in July of 2017 at World Stage Design at the Taipei National University for the Arts.
For more information, please see http://shadowtender.com/
CREDITS
Directed by: Natalya Kolosowsky (http://www.natalyakolosowsky.com/)
Performers:
Magda Kaczmarska (http://magdakaczmarska.com/)
Natalya Kolosowsky (http://www.natalyakolosowsky.com/)
Maria Thomas (http://birdskullstudios.com/)
Audio:
"Bloom A" by Adam Cooper-Terán (http://antral.net/)
"Mino Rattle" by Sophia Reta - used with permission (https://aarrcc.bandcamp.com/)
Videography:
Jiin Ahn (http://www.jiinahn.com/)
Shadow Tender
Director: Natasha Kolosowsky
Choreographer: Magda Kaczmarska
Dancers: Magda Kaczmarska, Natasha Kolosowsky, Maria Thomas
Video: Potoo Media
What is Shadow Tender?
Director: Natasha Kolosowsky
Choreographer: Magda Kaczmarska
Dancers: Magda Kaczmarska, Natasha Kolosowsky, Maria Thomas
Video: Potoo Media
Magda Kaczmarska talks about Shadow Tender