Tonight's performance represents the alluring engagement of dance, video, and sound. The expressive dance pieces to be shown were created as collaborative actions between the choreographers, most notably Sean Curran and Li Chiao-Ping, and video artist Douglas Rosenberg. The dances were then reinvented as mediated movement to be encountered by an audience before live musicians Ryan Smith and Daniel Feiler. To unify the dance, Rosenberg inserted brief interludes or entr'actes that allude to the body through poetic gestures. Screening the Body unfolds with a measure of improvisation as Smith delves into his nest of electronics and Feiler slaps on a processed electric bass; all the while Rosenberg cuts new patterns with a video mixer. Formerly a Bay Area resident, Douglas Rosenberg now resides in Madison, Wisconsin, where he directs the Dziga Vertov Performance Group. Screening the Body is just one of many video dance experiments he has fashioned in the past fifteen years. Two short dance works, Hope (2003, 10 mins) and Venous Flow: State of Grace (2003, 24 mins), will be presented as an introduction to the evening.