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photo: NATALIE FIOL
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ARMAGEDDON OR SUNRISE OR SOMETHING is an evening length duet made for and by Leah Wilks and Mauriah Donegan Kraker. The work is built on scores investigating exhaustion, endurance and the sensuality/the geographic of both internal and external landscapes. The duo grapples with the necessity of proximity to each other: they shake, rumble and drag each other to the ground, carry + sing to each other. Pulling from the duo’s different training histories in improvisation, olympic-level sport, ballet, modern dance technique, photography, and sound design, the piece functions as both a grief ritual and a space for reckoning with limitation.

​…a work that calls forth grief, joy, exhaustion, as well as the manifestation
of the daily and the generational. This work touches a space of the finite and infinite,
natural and supernatural, commonplace and magical,disaster and resiliency.
 


- Chloe Nagle, Smile Politely review
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photo: Natalie Fiol
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PERFORMANCE DATES
  • 2021 Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea de la Ciudad de México
  • 2021 currently screening at Greenspace (NY)
  • 2020 performed at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • 2019 performed at Miami Light Project (Miami)
  • 2019 performed The Fruit (Durham)
  • 2019 performed at the University of Illinios, Urbana-Champaign​

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​It feels like a dive inside to maneuver the body elsewhere… a resistant state of internality against a hideous political world we live in right now.  
- Tere O’Connor

Sound: Hayat Dominguez, Leah Wilks
Lighting: Alena Samoray
Costuming: Larissa Nallely Almanza, Isabelle Molnar
Dramaturgy/jill-of-all-trades: El Emadian
Production Management: Rebecca Ferrell
Videography: Mya McClellan, Stephanie Shaw
Video Editing: Mauriah Kraker, Mary Kate Ford

Premiered at Bluestem Hall on Barnhart Prairie, Urbana, IL - under the kind auspices of Abbie and Tim Frank, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Dance.
​leah + mauriah
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