18 — 21.05
Faye Driscoll New York-Los Angeles
Weathering
dance / performance
| ⧖ 1h05 | €22 / €18 | Contains nudity
How do we feel the impact of events which are so much larger than us, yet move through us, and animate and activate our bodies all the time? Ten performers enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage. 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 scenes shown reference at times images from classical iconography. Tenderness and violence, sensuality and brute force cohabitate. The audience sits all around as if watching a boxing match, embanking the performers, close enough to smell their sweat and feel the steam of the spiralling scenes. Celebrated American choreographer Faye Driscoll returns to the festival with a multi-sensory flesh and breath sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects. She pushes her performers to their limits in this compelling, adventurous work, presented in the impressive Horta Hall, originally an exhibition space for sculptures. Weathering is an ode to the inexhaustible physical power of queer bodies.
“The artist Faye Driscoll has always taken her performers and audiences to the edge, or tried to, but never so completely as in 'Weathering', an enthralling, epically adventurous work.”
The New York Times
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Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Bozar
Conception, choreography and direction: Faye Driscoll | Performance: James Barrett, Kara Brody, Amy Gernux, David Guzman, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Jennifer Nugent, Cory Seals, Maya LaLiberte, Carlo Antonio Villanueva, Jo Warren | Scenic design: Jake Margolin & Nick Vaughan | Lighting design: Amanda K. Ringger | Sound and music direction: Sophia Brous | Live sound and sound design: Ryan Gamblin | Composition, field recordings and sound design: Guillaume Soula | Costume design: Karen Boyer | Dramaturgy and scent design: Dages Juvelier Keates | Choreographic assistance: Amy Gernux | Intimacy coordination: Yehuda Duenyas | Lighting director: serena wong | Production stage management: Emily Vizina | Production management: Lilach Orenstein | Booking: Booking: Tommy Kriegsmann, Damien Valette
Commissioned and produced by New York Live Arts as part of the Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Program, which is made possible with lead funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and has been named for lead donors Jon Stryker and New York Live Arts board Vice-chair Slobodan Randjelović | Co-commissioned by Theater der Welt 2023 and The Joyce Theater Foundation’s Artist Residency Center, made possible by lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation | Additional commissioning support provided by Wexner Center for the Arts and members of Faye Driscoll’s Commissioners Circle
Made possible with generous support from New York State Council on the Arts, Café Royal Cultural Foundation and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and developed with residency support from Carolina Performing Arts at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow and Dancers’ Workshop
