OPEN TIME
Premiere: September 27-29, 2024
Z Space, San Francisco
Four dancers move through the four rooms and passageways of this installation fusing dance, text, architectural environment, and sound score; they pass through the audience as they move to different rooms; the audience watches from the passageways and periphery. Sharing the space, the audience creates a silent dialogue and an immediacy through their attention and rhythms.
Open Time grew from a trip to the Arctic, where everything was dark or white, and quiet. Only water, ice and snow, rocks, birds, some whales. I came home looking for that boundarylessness, inside myself; and read an interview with Louise Glück describing stillness, endings, beginnings—waiting, mining the world around for new ideas. Her words struck me. They anchored my thoughts about solitude and spaciousness, how important these are for living in our imagination and the world.
The installation’s four rooms amplify solitude, separateness, community. In Open Time, I’ve emphasized solitude.
The dancers are my invaluable collaborators. Open Time grew from their stories and mine.
VIDEO TRAILER
Choreography: Liss Fain
Music: Dan Wool
Installation Design: Matthew Antaky
Text: Louise Glück
Voiceover: Florentina Mocanu
Costume Design: Mary Domenico
Performers / Collaborators: Livanna Maislen, Elena Martins, Katherine Neumann, and Isabel Rosentstock