STORE is a performance installation inside an abandoned big box retail space, that explores body and psyche of the American consumer. STORE delves into the physical imagery and kinetics of mass-production and consumption.
It will be the third work in a trilogy of site-based performance installations called, "American Spaces," created by Kate Watson-Wallace/anonymous bodies in collaboration with video artist Ricardo Rivera, composer Josh Cicetti, dramaturge Sebastienne Mundheim, and costume designer Millie Hiibel. Kate is collaborating with a cast of five dancer/performers, exploring consumer culture through the human body. What is this shopping body, this cart-pusher, this wandering mouth, eyes, and belly? Aroused, contained, manipulated, we shop to get stuff, and we shop to relax. The store is our shared space, our public square, our theater. I want to make this ordinary space extraordinary again.
The content of American Spaces deals with the ordinary, the day to day: riding in a car to work, being stuck in traffic, coming home, sleeping, eating, fucking, shopping. The form takes on an extra-ordinary approach. What is odd, fantastical, grotesque about these places? How can I make them magical again for my audience by taking them into the actual places (a home, a car, a store) and creating a compressed, dilated world?
STORE Collaborators:
Video Artist: Ricardo Rivera
Composer: Josh Cicetti
Dramaturge: Sebastienne Mundheim
Costume Designer: Millie Hiibel
Performers: Makoto Hirano, Lorin Lyle, John Luna, Jaamil Kosoko, Heather Murphy, and Kate Watson-Wallace
STORE will premiere inside a Philadelphia store at The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival
STORE is made possible by funding from: Rockefeller Map Fund, a program of Creative Capital and Dance Advance, a program of the Pew Charitable Trusts