Living Rooms

Living Rooms is a quartet with 3 dancers and a couch. The work examines how our living spaces hold memory, and how these spaces change when the inhabitants have left. Three dancers move on a couch in three parts: right-side-up, sideways, and upside-down. Three people remembering differently. Living Rooms premiered at Philadelphia's 2006 DanceBoom! Festival at the Wilma Theater'. The work begins with a pas-de-duex on couch, moves into a solo in which the couch is tilted sideways, and a woman tries to re-orient herself on it, and a final duet in which two dancers adjust to their new surrounding, in which the couch is suspended from the rafters, tipped upside down, and hanging above their heads.

Living Rooms

LIVING ROOMS

Living Rooms is a quartet with 3 dancers and a couch. The work examines how our living spaces hold memory, and how these spaces change when the inhabitants have left. Three dancers move on a couch in three parts: right-side-up, sideways, and upside-down. Three people remembering differently. Living Rooms premiered at Philadelphia’s 2006 DanceBoom! Festival at the Wilma Theater’. The work begins with a pas-de-duex on couch, moves into a solo in which the couch is tilted sideways, and a woman tries to re-orient herself on it, and a final duet in which two dancers adjust to their new surrounding, in which the couch is suspended from the rafters, tipped upside down, and hanging above their heads.

performed by: Bethany Formica, david Konyk, Megan Mazarick

movement created in collaboration with the performers

rigging by: Andy Schmitz

lighting design by: Madison Cario

costume design: Linda Smyth