UK Premiere

Faye Driscoll’s Weathering is a multi-sensory flesh sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects.

Ten people (dancers/singers/crew) enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene. Their voices generate a score that crescendos and resonates as they clutch, careen and cleave, in a space too small to contain them, spilling off the edges. The audience embanks the performers, close enough to smell the sweat and feel the steam of the central, spiraling scenes. The symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking, choreography of micro events within a momentum thrusting from just beyond the perceivable.

Driscoll and her team of collaborators ask: How do we feel the impact of events moving through us which are so much larger? Yet are animating and activating our bodies all the time? How do we get closer to the impact? Can we slow down enough to feel the dust, hurt, howl, absence, spill, plume?

Credits

Conception, Choreography and Direction: Faye Driscoll
Performance: James Barrett, Kara Brody, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Amy Gernux, David Guzman, Maya LaLiberté, Mykel Marai Nairne, Jennifer Nugent, Cory Seals, Jo Warren
Scenic Design: Jake Margolin and Nick Vaughan
Lighting Design: Amanda K. Ringger
Sound and Music Direction: Sophia Brous
Live Sound and Sound Design: Ryan Gamblin
Composition, Field recordings, Sound Design: Guillaume Soula
Costume Design: Karen Boyer
Dramaturgy and Scent Design: Dages Juvelier Keates
Choreographic Assistance: Amy Gernux
Intimacy coordination: Yehuda Duenyas
Production Manager/Lighting Director: Connor Sale & Will Monks
Stage and Props Management: Neva Guido
Producer: J. Alex Mathews

Presented with Fierce Festival

Image by Angel Origgi