ABOUT
Exploding Moment is a loose confederation of artists working with director Catharine Dill and performer Sharla Meese. We address underexposed facets of contemporary existence with the same materials that provide its tone, rhythm and texture. The work is not only a reflection of daily life, but an examination of our means of perceiving it. Our projects may be made from any media but usually include a theatrically utilitarian stage design, low-tech video and audio manipulation, and performance techniques that range from cinematic realism to contemporary dance.
PERSONNEL
Catharine Dill has produced and directed three projects with Exploding Moment, DATE:TIME, WHAT I LIKE ABOUT
BREASTS and CAN I HELP YOU?. She has co-produced and/or co-directed five projects with the arts ensemble Red Dive, which she co-founded. Her awards include the Bessie Award for Installation and New Media, the AREA Award (awarded by Chashama and the National Endowment for the Arts), residencies at Yaddo and the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and grants from Art Matters, the Greenwall Foundation, the Heathcote Foundation, the Curtis W. McGraw Foundation, and a Foundry Theatre Emerging Artists' Award.
Sharla Meese has been a performer/collaborator on Exploding Moment's two most recent projects, YE'RE HERE, CUZIN! and CAN I HELP YOU? Her recent work includes: FOREST MAIDEN for Nina Morrison at HERE as part of the NYFringe, LEAVES OF GRASS at The Cell, SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY at Bank Street Theater, POETICS: A BALLET BRUT for Nature Theater of Oklahoma at The Public Theater as part of the Under the Radar Festival, and A TIMELESS KAIDAN for Ximena Garnica/Leimay at Theater for the New City as part of the NY Butoh Festival. She has worked as an artist in residence for Floris Schönfeld/ KTRE at The Watermill Center and as an intern for The Wooster Group.
Associated Artists: Bidalia Albanese, Kathryn Alexander, Matthew Boals, Steven Boling, Derek Ellis, Shea Elmore, Drew Feuer, Andrew Glasgow, Dan Gray, Valerie Green, Caitlin Hahn, Amber Lasciak, Jillian Lauren, Tracy Leipold, DeAnna Lenhart, Michael Lillard, Johnny Lops, Lauryn McCarter, Dan Meller, Mary Catherine Moore, Natalie Neckyfarow, Amelia Olsen, Katherine O'Sullivan, Ben Oyzon, Jeremy Pickard, June Raphael, Stephen Reyes, Gabriel Rivera, Karin Lili Ruhe, Kamala Sankaram, Kate Scelsa, Dave Shelley, Alyssa Simon, Michael Sirsky, Ashley Smith, Dave Steele, Malcolm Stuart, Helena Tepley-Figman, Kim Thomas, Dana Renee Thompson, Rommel Tolentino, Katherine Wessling and Paloma H. Young.
