Still from Flora Wiegmann's “Reduction Burn,” 2018. Six-channel video installation, color, sound. (Safety Third Productions / Flora Wiegmann and C. Nichols Project)

Still from Flora Wiegmann's “Reduction Burn,” 2018. Six-channel video installation, color, sound. (Safety Third Productions / Flora Wiegmann and C. Nichols Project)

 

Reduction Burn

Choreographer: Flora Wiegmann

Music: Ben Shemie

Premiered: Made in L.A, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2018.

Wiegmann’s installation consists of a six-channel video that displays different sections of her 30-minute dance, “Reduction Burn.” Five women (including Wiegmann) will perform in the Hammer’s Nimoy Studio, with the audience seated along two sides. Wiegmann’s dance took shape as a response to personal and political crises. She chose the natural cycle of a forest fire as an allegory for the “flare-ups” she was experiencing, with new life and hope bursting forth from devastation.

 
Installation view, Made in L.A. 2018, June 3-September 2, 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Photo: Brian Forrest.

Installation view, Made in L.A. 2018, June 3-September 2, 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Photo: Brian Forrest.