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"Season” July 11-12, 2008 Dark Dining Projects’ “Season” opened the 17th annual KO Festival of Performance which had as its theme “FOOD: appetites, attitudes and politics." Blindfolded guests banqueted on local in-season foods, spooned soup from bowls made of ice, ate at tables blanketed in gigantic leaves, foraged for fruits, flowers, nuts and berries in a 30' "forest", and created “nests” to cradle dessert. Amherst College’s Holden Theater, a superb black box theater, became an ever-changing olfactory, tactile and sonic environment, an installation of wind, water, organic material, music and movement. Among the project’s 20+ collaborators were Chef Allen Harris of Noble Feast, installation artist Noah Baen, and CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture), and seven energetic interns.

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Dark Dining Projects   Dana Salisbury, Creator/Director      917-686-7474