Weathering

Faye Driscoll

WEST COAST PREMIERE

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Price: $27*
Genre: Dance
Season: Winter/Spring 2025
DATE: FEB 6-8
TIME: THU-SAT, 8:30 PM
RUNTIME: Approx. 75 minutes
COUNTRY: USA

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About

In Weathering, ten performers move and morph on a raft-like stage, surrounded by audiences that witness the awe-inspiring evolving tableau of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids, and objects. Dancers gradually shift from barely perceptible gestures to high-velocity sprints and collisions, in what choreographer Faye Driscoll terms “a multi-sensory flesh sculpture surging through the Anthropocene.” As a vocal score resonates throughout the space, dancers spill and careen into the spiral of a hurricane. The audience is drawn into this storm, close enough to smell the sweat, hear the labored breathing, and feel the rising energy of the living symphony of bodies. In our contemporary moment when movements and forces that shape lives can seem difficult to grasp, Driscoll and her collaborators ask: “How do we feel the impact of large events in the intimacy of our own bodies?”

Please note: Weathering contains nudity and loud sounds. Limited amounts of essential oils will be used within the show. Please contact the Box Office for any specific allergen queries.

An enthralling, epically adventurous work.

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Siobhan Burke, The New York Times

Weathering is commissioned and produced by New York Live Arts as part of the New York Live Arts Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Program, and co-commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Joyce Theater Foundation’s Artist Residency Center made possible by lead funding from The Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, Wexner Center for the Arts, Theater der Welt 2023 in Frankfurt-Offenbach, and Julidans Amsterdam. Additional support provided by members of Faye Driscoll’s Commissioners Circle, New York State Council on the Arts, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and developed with residency support from Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, and the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow.

about the artist

Faye Driscoll is a Doris Duke Award-winning performance maker who has been hailed as a “startlingly original talent” by The New York Times and “a postmillennial postmodern wild woman” by The Village Voice. She was the 2021–2022 Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award, and the Jacob’s Pillow Artist Award, among many others. Her work has been presented at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Walker Art Center, ICA/Boston, MCA Chicago, and BAM, and internationally at Tanz im August, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, La Biennale di Venezia, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Melbourne Festival, Belfast International Arts Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Centro de Arte Experimental in Buenos Aires, Festival Dias da Dança in Porto, Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse), Le Lieu Unique (Nantes), and Festival TransAmeriques (Montreal).

She recently premiered Calving (2022) at Theater Bremen (Bremen, Germany) and Weathering (2023) at New York Live Arts (NY, USA). In 2020, her first-ever solo exhibition, Come On In, opened at Walker Art Center and then went on to Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, On the Boards, and Esplanade in Singapore, offering gallery-goers six distinct audio-guided experiences called Guided Choreographies for the Living and the Dead. Driscoll’s newest work, Oceanic Feeling, a site-specific performance on Rockaway Beach (Queens, NY), was commissioned by Beach Sessions Dance Series for their 10th anniversary season.

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cast & creative team

Conception, Choreography, and Direction: Faye Driscoll

Performance: James Barrett, Kara Brody, Miguel Alejandro

Castillo, Amy Gernux, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Maya LaLiberté, Jennifer Nugent,

Cory Seals, Carlo Antonio Villanueva, 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