Sektor 6 Kommunikations: Vicky Virgin

v v i r g i n @ n y c . r r . c o m

s 6 k M e d i a and V i c k y V i r g i n
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T h e F l e u r d e S e l C h r o n i c l e s

Fleur de Sel is an odd character with an irrational craving for salt. She is experiencing strange craving relapses that are the affects of an unexplained salt overdose, which years later, instigates her into behavior she doesn't understand, and can not control. She's being forced to negotiate a dangerous landscape of passion: desire, bliss and despair.

Fleur de Sel is a participant in an experiment. But she doesn't know it.

You can read her diary at s6k.com/deseldiaries

OK, so I am obsessed with salt. I just can't help myself. Everything about it turns me on the way it dissolves and becomes one with the tip of my tongue, the beautiful crystal-like diamond shapes or the way it roughs up my skin. I am not sure how this all started or where it comes from. Perhaps it began when my forefathers settled on the saltiest lake in the country and then proceeded to fail seven crops. Or maybe from skipping amongst the cow licks in my grandpa's cow pastures. Oh! How beautiful they were---pink and hard and undulating and gray and soft and white and cold and smooth--- think Henry Moore sculptures. And then it was probably cinched by my discovery at an early age of the pure thrill of raiding a midsummer night garden armed with nothing but a salt shaker. Whatever it is, I just can't seem to get enough.

Vicky Virgin’s Salt Lake, a New Ballet in 3 Acts

supported by a grant from

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
with salt contributed by Realsalt of Redmond, Utah
Choreography:

* Vicky Virgin
Theatrical Direction:
* Ümit Çelebi
Video:
* Trent Harris
Overture:
* Jason Crigler
Music:
* Michelle Kinney and Jello Slave
Costumes:
* Fritz Masten
Dancers:
* Sarah Godbehere, Chris McMillan, Carmen Nicole
and Vicky Virgin
Actress:
* Victoria Boomsma

In association with M&M Productions Acting Company, Inc.

3 press photos from "Salt Lake"

Salt becomes a metaphor for desire and passion in Vicky Virgin’s new dance creation, Salt Lake, a New Ballet in 3 Acts. Story ballet converges with performance art to provide the platform for Fleur de Sel, a creature obsessed with salt. Joined by three salt fairies, together they journey through the dangerous landscape and fallout of passion: bliss, desire, and despair. Salt in its myriad forms is fully explored: Kosher salt is poured into a spiral on the floor, fine sea salt is snorted, a salt lick is licked and a mountain of rock salt is built on top of Fleur’s feet….in the end you will be left with nothing less than pure unadulterated thirst.

Salt Lake, a New Ballet in 3 Acts is choreographed and performed by Vicky Virgin with theatrical direction by Ümit Çelebi and is produced in association with M&M Productions Acting Company, Inc. Filmmaker Trent Harris contributes a film of the Great Salt Lake in all of its eerie beauty and Fritz Masten created the costumes. The salt nymphs will be danced by NYC ballerinas; Chris McMillan, Sarah Godbehere and Elena Zahlmann and music is by Michelle Kinney and Jello Slave with an overture by Jason Crigler. Supported by a grant from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with salt contributed by Realsalt of Redmond, Utah.