Project description:
Building upon the complexities of personal history and its resonance beyond the self, this work explores a language of trust, spiritual connection, bodily illness, and pathological silence. It is the product of a collaboration committed to time, repetition, and searches for ‘a truth’.

Beginning with the sound of Morse code and an out-of-body experience told though a crude recording. We, the two performer, enteridentically dressed. Each is a satellite to the other, whether physically connected or echoing an image in tableau. One is constantly held in the gravity of the other. We are simultaneously sparing partners and confidants, parents and children, opposites and equals. We progress through a sequence of rapid lifts and carries, receptions of dance, and subtle phrases of gesture centered on endurance. The sound shifts in energy from the frenetic pulse of Klezmer to the faint tremor of bird calls. In the middle of it all is a story of spaceships blasted by accident into a stratosphere that has no end.

Staged with the barest of props, dim lights, and shadow play, we slip from stillness to action, trousers to dresses, female to male, power to passivity. This one hour work is layered with multiple sound tracks and movement that is both stylized and pedestrian. It draws on a variety of sources from Pop music to circus imagery constantly shifting between spoken and visual strategies. It is, in essence, the story of survival, of laughing and coping and the heresies committed to do so.