Faye Driscoll: WEATHERING at OZ Arts in Nashville, TN
WEATHERING
April 24-26, 8PM
RUNTIME: Approx. 75 minutes
“An enthralling, epically adventurous work”
— The New York Times
“Faye Driscoll is a post-millennium, postmodern wild woman. A wild woman with a scrupulous sense of form that she tweaks into eye-opening weirdness. Ferocious, hilarious, and disturbing…”
— Village Voice
Ten performers cling to a revolving platform, surrounded on all sides by a rapt audience witnessing the careening and awe-inspiring kinetic sculpture of vulnerable human bodies. At times, they are perfectly (almost eerily) still, and at other moments they engage in high-velocity movement that makes them seem perilously close to being flung into space — or is it the sea? Choreographer and director Faye Driscoll describes her latest work, Weathering, as a “multi-sensory flesh sculpture,” and a “morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene.” Sounds and scents add to the experience, as performers create a sonic score of voices and breaths that crescendos and resonates as we see bodies morph through physical and emotional displays of primordial fear and joy.
A singular experience that is sure to be one of the most legendary and memorable performance works of our time, Weathering created an international buzz that quickly reverberated around the world after its 2023 New York premiere, leading to touring with great acclaim throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.
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.
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.
