Degenerate Art Ensemble Needs Your Financial Help

This upcoming Halloween weekend, Seattle's performance art darlings Degenerate Art Ensemble are debuting a new work, Sonic Tales, at the Moore for two nights only.

Currently, they're still working on raising money to put on the show, though, and are asking the community to support their efforts through cash donations.

They still need around $8,000, so if have $10 to spare (and I know some of you do), or better yet, $100, click here to donate online or send checks to: Degenerate Art Ensemble, 210 NW Bowdoin Pl., Seattle, WA 98107.

Sonic Tales promises to be amazing. I caught a sneak-peek or some of the show at a work-in-progress performance at Canoe Club a couple weeks ago. Choreographer/performer Haruko Nishimura is structuring the show around the idea of a fragmented psyche. To represent the idea of multiple performers being separate facets of the same identity, one of the things she's turned to are old Topsy Turvy dolls that have reverseable dresses and heads, so that the same doll can be several characters (such as Little Red Riding Hood, her grandmother, and the wolf, all in one). Through creative costumes, impressive dance work, and innovative video technology, she actually makes this happen onstage.