Created originally as film for performance, traffic (or thoughts while eating ritz crackers), is a collaboration between Bay area filmmaker Ian Winters and choreographer Mary Armentrout that features a day's worth of traffic passing in 7 minutes combined with the on stage musings of a ritz cracker eating Armentrout falling from a kitchen chair. Following its debut at CounterPULSE (SF) in November 2007, traffic, will next be shown at Highways in Santa Monica, CA in March 2008.

Mary Armentrout  is a choreographer who creates hybrid dance-theater fusion works that she calls performance installations. Drawing raves and somewhat puzzled acclaim from the critics: "a performance artist of tremendous range" (Dance View Times), "a quirky idiosyncratic choreographer who assembles works that appear illogical on the surface - but somehow her twisted humor, comic timing, and odd use of furniture and bodies coalesce into meaningful dance" (The East Bay Monthly), she is engaged in "inventing a new kind of dance theater right before our eyes" (Dance View Times).f

Ian Winters is a San Francisco Bay Area based photographer, video-maker and performer. His recent work focuses on the intersections of photography, video and performance, often as collaborations and site-specific works with musicians, composers and choreographers. He trained in photography, film and performance at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston and Tufts University. www.ianwinters.com