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ELIZABETH YOCHIM
FILM/MEDIA (SELECT)
FILM
ANGELBIRD is a short film that explores the roots and transformation of a woman dealing with the loss of her mother. The film moves, dream-like, across the physical and emotional landscapes of her life, from the shores of Lake Michigan to the streets of Los Angeles. Using street performance as a vehicle for transformation, she breaks from the cage of grief to become the embodiment of freedom.
ANGELBIRD is based on the true story of Elizabeth Yochim, a multi-media performance artist, art historian, dancer, and filmmaker. She creates solo and group performance works internationally in the environment—be it the city or the natural world. She has shared performances of the Angelbird with audiences all over the world including nine countries and over 50 cities in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
LIVE PERFORMANCE
ESSENCE is a filmed performance art piece of movement, song and poetry exploring the intersection of Stefano Panichi’s art and the architecture of the Fine Arts Building in downtown Los Angeles. The historic building, in its rapturous beauty, provides a unique, architectural environment for artists, creatives, and the people of Los Angeles. Essence explores the building from the inside out where the viewer of the film enters the building through a visual, sonic and poetic experience, feeling the rich tapestry of place that this iconic and historic building presents 100 years later.
Featuring the following artists: Jahna Perricone, Soprano; Kate McCallum, Soprano; Don Norman, Poet; and Elizabeth Yochim, Dancer. The live performance piece was directed and produced by Elizabeth Yochim. The film was directed and edited by Todd Felderstein.
Essence was presented through a collaboration with Lisa Ames of Art Meets Architecture and Curator Anna Dusi.
NATURE
TREE SONG
your finger falls
lightly upon my skin
so falls our illusions
like a leaf on a windless day
an unexpected, ponderous meander
brilliance fading to black soil
you think you stand alone; yet
our hands reach for the same light
our thirst is quenched by the same drink
we both suck sustenance from the same earth
made, as it is, from our bodies
and
we have this way of kissing (you breathing in what i breathe out, i breathing in what you breathe out)
Fifty thousand aspen trees are one being
connected beneath the sight line
your roots and my roots stretch together into every beginning
entwined
whatever the distance between our attempts to taste the sky
What i require of you is what you require of me
to be here
breathe now,
drink now
expand now in the light
and in the dark now contract
sing our song, root, stem and leaf
and if there be storms
what is a storm but the passion of
dust and breath and fire
and if there be drought or pestilence
what is trouble, but the winnowing of chaff
to find the seed of the new morn
and if there be the morrow
what is the morrow
but another falling illusion
Poem by Don Norman
Music by Andrew Bird
@don_nor_man (Instagram,Twitter)
Media (Select)
Power of Play by Elizabeth Yochim at TEDx USC
Interview of Elizabeth Yochim with Steve Dahlberg and Mary Alice Long on Participatory Play and Movement
stARTup Art Fair Los Angeles Program
Interview with Elizabeth Yochim and Anna Dusi
Le Petite Festival du Théâtre Dubrovnik, Croatia Program
Hollywood Fringe Los Angeles Program
Women's Salon LA: The Red Book
Newtopia Magazine: Participlay: Innovation in Interaction
Cultural Weekly: Tongva Park and the Angelbird
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