Private Project

Reckoning

Reckoning, a contemporary dance theatre duet created and performed by Kora Radella and Chris Seibert, traces the friction between two women who both challenge and nurture one another. As instigators and encumbrances, they navigate a realm of mutual reliance like two Cinderellas intrinsically linked. This relationship is made to last despite the struggles they endure.
The full work is an evening-length duet of 50 minutes, but we also perform excerpts of Reckoning, most commonly the 14-minute section with Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 7 in F major, Op. 59 No. 1, III Adagio molto e mesto
adagio. Many possibilities of performances of Reckoning exist from a 9-minute duration onwards.
“From the waist down, the women wear wedding dresses that have been tucked and folded, topped by puckered, gray cotton bodices. As a recording of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 7 plays, the two rail against each other in a (beautiful) physical battle, thrusting fists toward one another’s guts, or prodding and pulling at legs and arms as feathers stuffed in Radella’s bosom go flying every which way. But in moments, the women slow the action and tenderly support each other’s weight. It’s hard to know what exactly the metaphor is: Are they swans? Geishas? Lovers? Runaway brides? Maybe all of the above — it’s fascinating.” - Lauren Warneke, Chicago arts critic

  • Kora Radella
    Director
  • Kora Radella
    Producer
  • Chris Seibert
    Producer
  • Kora Radella
    Key Cast
  • Chris Seibert
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Other
  • Runtime:
    13 hours 54 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 10, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Kora Radella

KORA RADELLA is a choreographer, movement teacher, performer, and artist. Radella’s choreography has been performed in New York City at venues including Judson Church, Danspace Project, Dixon Place, 92Y, Center for Performance Research, Pioneer Works, and Roulette and in other locations nationally including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Pulse Art Fair in Miami, Art Prize in Grand Rapids, the Three River Arts Festival in Pittsburgh, and Cleveland Public Theatre and internationally at Berliner Festspiele in Berlin and Arts Arena in Paris at the invitation of renowned theater director Robert Wilson, as well as in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Basel, Brussels, and London. Wilson about the evening-length work she choreographed entitled Repercussion wrote, "Geometric choreography is counterpointed with moments of free movement, with intelligent and carefully thought out use of space." Noted for her use of "awkward grace," Radella researches being on the edge of control, pushing both physical and psychological balances. She was a recipient of an artist residency at Yaddo in 2016 and at Lake Studios Berlin in 2015, Ohio Arts Excellence Awards in 2014 and 2018, and was a 2019 Bogliasco Fellow. She also was an artist-in-residence at The Watermill Center in 2016 with BOOMERANG, a company she, as the choreographer, co-founded. Radella's primary teaching interests include contemporary dance technique via what she calls "riding resilience," improvisation, contact improvisation, and
composition. Radella has a long-standing collaborative history, via Double-Edge Dance, with composer/saxophonist Ross Feller and has collaborated with other contemporary musicians as well as visual artists and filmmakers. She is a certified yoga teacher (500RYT). Radella has a Kenyon College dance faculty position that allows her flexibility to create special projects, do commissioned work, and teach master classes nationally and internationally. Contact kora.radella@gmail.com for bookings. To see Radella’s work with BOOMERANG, visit www.boomerangdance.com

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