photo: NATALIE FIOL
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
photo: Natalie Fiol
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PREVIEW of Work
PERFORMANCE DATES
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. |