Faye Driscoll
Weathering
novembernov 12 – 15
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Wednesday november 12
20h
Thursday november 13
20h
Friday november 14
20h
Saturday november 15
20h
Conception, choreography, and direction Faye Driscoll. With James Barrett, Kara Brody, Miguel Alejandro Castille, Amy Gernux, Maya LaLiberté, Mykel Marai Nairne, Jennifer Nugent, Cory Seals, Carlo Antonio Villanueva, Jo Warren. Understudies David Guzman, Marie Lloyd Paspe. Set design Jake Margolin, Nick Vaughan. Lighting Amanda K. Ringger. Music and sound Sophia Brous. Live sound and sound design Ryan Gamblin. Composition, field recordings, and sound design Guillaume Soula. Costumes Karen Boyer. Dramaturgy Dages Juvelier Keates. Choreography assistant Amy Gernux. Intimacy coordination Yehuda Duenyas. Lighting creation Connor Sale. Props management Emily Vizina. Tour management Damien Valette.
Commissioned and produced by New York Live Arts as part of the Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Program
Coproduced by Carolina Performing Arts (Chapel Hill); Joyce Theater Foundation’s Artist Residency Center
With the support of the Mellon Foundation; Howard Gilman Foundation; LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Dancers’ (Jackson Hole); Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus); Theater der Welt; Julidans (Amsterdam)
With additional support from the members of Faye Driscoll’s Commissioners Circle, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Café Royal Cultural Foundation, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
With residency support from Dancers’ Workshop (Jackson Hole), the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, and the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, King’s Fountain, Villa Albertine, and Fondation Albertine
Le CENTQUATRE-PARIS and the Festival d’Automne in Paris present this performance as a co-presentation.
With the support of
In this latest creation by American director Faye Driscoll, she confronts us, to dizzying effect, with a sensory whirlwind. Weathering choreographs our bonds of reciprocity and seals a destiny which is of a necessarily common nature.
In the centre of the space is a white mass, which might be a simulated block of ice or an end-of-the-world raft. On it, ten performers use their intertwining bodies to slowly build up images, tableaux vivants born from a queer imaginary world. Fingers slip into a mouth, a trickle of drool drops down a back, hands grip a collar, and gasps evoke as much suffering as pleasure. In a cascade of chain reactions and interdependencies, each micro-event has repercussions on this group which is in a permanent state of morphing. Under a harsh light, the audience, seated all around, becomes completely caught up in this 360° installation of breaths, vocal harmonies, flesh, sensualities, smells, liquids and objects. In this way, Weathering makes perceptible what is much greater than us, namely that of a weather system that binds us all together, along with its disruptions, and frenzied, out-of-control occurrences. Amidst this chaos we are now facing up to and for which we share the responsibility, there is no turning back. Cataclysm has become more than just a probability.
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