Faye Driscoll: WEATHERING at REDCAT in Los Angeles, CA
WEATHERING
FEB 6-8, 8:30 PM
RUNTIME: Approx. 75 minutes
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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?”
Thursday, February 6th
Post-show toast in the REDCAT Lounge to celebrate Faye Driscoll and the artistic team.
Friday, February 7th
Post-show Q&A with Faye Driscoll in the REDCAT Lounge moderated by Katy Dammers.
Saturday, February 8th, 2-3:30pm
Faye Driscoll and the Weathering team invite local LA based movers into their pre-show ritual. Join the company for “warm up” in the REDCAT Theater. Let’s be together and move our voices and bodies with pleasure and readiness. We love you LA. | To register, please click here.
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.
Late seating for the perfomance is not allowed. Seats in the front row are in close proximity to the performance.
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.
