Thursday, Sept. 15 | 8:30 pm
Friday, Sept. 16 | 8:30 pm
Saturday, Sept. 17 | 8:30 pm
Choreographer Faye Driscoll is a Doris Duke Award-winning performance maker who has been hailed as a "startlingly original talent" by The New York Times. Her most recent work, Thank You For Coming: Space, is a shared rite of passage—a conjuring of the transformative powers of presence and absence. The dance work unfolds within an intimate installation—wired for sound and upheld by pulleys, ropes, and the weight of others—where Driscoll appears alone with the audience. Through an alchemy of body, object, voice, and live sound, she builds a moving requiem for the human body, creating a world that is, like ourselves, alive and forever changeable.
Thank You for Coming: Space was commissioned by Peak Performances as part of the Performing Arts Research Lab (PeARL) at Montclair State University, New Jersey; and co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund; and Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University through the Wexner Center Residency Award Program.
The work was made possible with generous support from the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Program and the Jerome Foundation, and developed with residency support from Camargo Foundation, the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow and the Rauschenberg Foundation. Thank You for Coming: Space is a project of Creative Capital.
Thank You for Coming: Space was co-produced by Peak Performances at Montclair State University (NJ) and had its world premiere at The Alexander Kasser Theater in 2019.
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