LIMITS
LIMITS is the performance/film hybrid formed by dancer Corrie Befort and sound artist Jason E Anderson in 2014. The duo draw upon their extensive involvement with improvisation, film, video art, installation and experimental performance to investigate psychological experiences of time, memory and perception. LIMITS live performances disorient, disrupt and reorganize space/context, as a means to engage a fully sensate experience. These ultra-physical, often volatile performances generate scenarios that lead to new, iterative works of film, installation, audio recordings and large-scale performances.
LIMITS has performed for festivals including Debacle, Corridor, Dream Cargo, 2 Day (S1, Portland) and the Yellow Fish Epic Durational Festival. Their debut film A Rendering, shot and edited by Adam Diller, premiered in Fall 2016 at the Northwest Film Forum and was screened for CROSSROADS film festival at SF MOMA. In June 2017, LIMITS developed new work on residency in Fraine, Italy. This work has lead to their new film project The Archivist, which was begun in August 2017.
LIMITS has been supported by the Office of Arts and Culture Seattle, 4Culture, and 10 Degrees.
"Duo LIMITS—Anderson and avant-garde dancer/choreographer Corrie Befort—make every live performance a riveting and baffling onslaught of jarring electronic abstractions and beguiling movement in the service of psychological disorientation."
Dave Segal, The Stranger
Corrie Befort | dancer/choreographer
Corrie Befort is a Seattle-based dancer, choreographer, designer and filmmaker whose collaborative performance works have been presented and commissioned nationally and in Japan and Belgium. Her primary partnerships are with performance company Salt Horse (Beth Graczyk, Angelina Baldoz), LIMITS (Jason E Anderson), and with composer Tom Baker. Her award-winning dance films have screened in festivals internationally since 2002. Corrie builds movement-inspired, physically-activated visual art and effects, scenography and costuming. Artists she has worked with include Cherdonna/Jody Keuhner, Mark Haim, and artists working with Deborah Hay solos (Shannon Stewart, Mary Margaret Moore).
Jason E Anderson | sound artist
Jason E Anderson is an electronic musician/sound artist living in rural Eastern WA. His work includes performance, recorded works, video, installation, music for dance, producing and publishing (Gift Tapes/DRAFT). He performs and records music under his own name, as Spare Death Icon, and in LIMITS with Corrie Befort. Anderson employs systems that generate sound and patterns in performance, using modular synthesizers, 80s/90s-era rack synths, field recordings, computers and SuperCollider.
