GONE (2003) is a dance video opera set inside the bowels of a nightclub. Created in collaboration with painter Anthony DeMelas, video artist Ricardo Rivera, songstress Kristin Purcell, and a host of Philly beat-makers, Gone premiered at the 2003 Philly Fringe, amidst the crowd in a huge club. Dancers moved on the club’s stages, staircases, catwalks and bars, immersed in larger-than-life video projections, which covered the walls. The installation explored the places in which we are gone, past, lost and infatuated. Live songs interspersed dance vignettes, dj sets, and video paintings.
“Like stepping into a live painting: sexy, moving, haunting.” - Audience member
Performed by: Kristin Purcell, Rebecca Sloan, Travis Mesman, Danielle Strawmyre, Karin Bookbinder, Kate Watson-Wallace, Cricket, Monica Horowitz
Video Design by: Ricardo Rivera
Paintings in Video by: Anthony DeMelas
Costumes by: Maren Reese and Tracey Olkus
Music by: Patrick Parker, Shaun Walker, Daniel Thomas, Mike McHenry
Live Vocals and Lyrics by: Kristin Purcell
All photos of Gone by: Michael Demersion
