Light, alive in its many forms, the Film Frame, the Lumia Box, Silent Cinema with live accompaniment, and the film “Blade Runner” are the inspirations for “FUSE”.

“Kovgan’s images are often eerily evocative, like the displaced blue flicker from a TV in another room. Even when the action becomes frenetic, it’s hypnotically so. And some of the most powerful work comes in the slower, more ambient sections, which build to a surprisingly emotional pitch.” – the Boston Globe

“Wonderful, a tour de force!…a wild meditation on the TV set“ – George Fifield, Director of Boston Cyberarts Festival

“…it grows with more viewings. There is a lot going on there. You bit off something big and should feel nothing but pride…” – David Henry, Curator, ICA Boston

“Strong dancing, great score, incredible sets and video.” – Maure Aronson, Director of CrashArts/World Music

“At times the dancers look imprisoned; at other times they’re empowered, as they effortlessly swing up, catch hold of the ceiling, flip upside down, and hang like bats. It all adds to a state of beautiful unreality.” – the Boston Globe

“…elements have been so carefully blended that what happens is mesmeric.” – the Boston Globe

In 1754, between absurd attempts to apply his aging worldview to natural occurrences, the French Jesuit monk Father Louis Bertrand Castel, also a mathematician and physicist, invented the ocular harpsichord or color organ. Twice the size of a grand piano, this miraculous object was comprised of 144 musical keys, 240 levers and pulleys, 60 reflecting mirrors, and 500 candles.

Dazzling although awkward, it was precursor to both disco ball and MTV in its ambitions to inspire visual ecstasy. Castel genuinely hoped that some day every Parisian household would possess one of his instruments.

Described as “Geo-psychic” by the Boston Herald’s critic Ted Bale, Denizen is inspired by the masterworks of the great Armenian filmmakers Sergey Parajanov and Artavazd Peleshian. Denizen is the artistic response to their films, a way to engage in an imaginary conversation with these filmmakers about the stories they tell, the places they portray, the rituals their characters embody as well as the creative principles they used to make their films.

“The layering of emotionally potent choreography, exotic imagery, sounds, and staging add up to a daring and dramatically theatrical experience.” – Boston Globe

“…stunning… “Denizen” integrates film, a scenic design, and especially lighting into the dance to create a theatrical experience with enormous dramatic impact… A breathtaking synthesis of live and filmed dance.” – Boston Globe

“Denizen is lush and sensual, mysterious and vivid, formally sophisticated and painterly…”– Ted Bale of the Boston Herald

“…Idiosyncratic half-folk, half-alien…transforming the potentially alienating language of postmodern dance into a hauntingly familiar experience…” – The Weekly Dig

SECRET STREAMS is an intermedia performance investigating the essence of motion – the unifying power between dance, film, and kinetic sculpture. Inspired by the spiritual writings of esoteric philosopher Rudolf Steiner, Secret Streams gestures to the fragmentary nature of memory and the ephemeral qualities of movement.

“There is something inherently cold, indifferent, mechanical, calculated about technology/ video that mutes the emotional, human impact of dance video works. Kinodance Company’s work – with its deft weaving of live action and projected imagery – is opening important remedies to this predicament.” – Jim Coleman, choreographer/professor of dance, Mt. Holyoke University

“what you all achieve in terms of suspending time, looping back on time is remarkable” – Richard Colton, director of “Summer Stages” dance festival

BODY TALES communicates without words in the conversations of body, image, object, light and sound. It operates under the idea that performance reveals the psychological needs of a society and through abstractions of “the real” and “the imagined” attempts to find understanding in the confusing miasma of our current world. BODY TALES runs from extremes of choice and stays in between – in the place where chaos, creativity and confusion exists in an attempt to find answers. The elements of Body/Image/Sound/Objects strive to create a transforming landscape to mirror the landscapes of our world, ever changing, ever tenuous. BODY TALES claws at the surface of the skin and dives down deep, grasping for the soul, swimming fast to the surface with the hope of some truth in hand.