Weathering

“An enthralling, epically adventurous work”

—Siobhan Burke, The New York Times 

Faye Driscoll’s newest work Weathering is a multi-sensory flesh sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects. Ten people (dancers/singers/crew) enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene. Their voices generate a score that crescendos and resonates as they clutch, careen and cleave, in a space too small to contain them, spilling off the edges. The audience embanks the performers, close enough to smell the sweat and feel the steam of the central, spiraling scenes. The symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking, choreography of micro events within a momentum thrusting from just beyond the perceivable. Driscoll and her team of collaborators ask: How do we feel the impact of events moving through us which are so much larger? Yet are animating and activating our bodies all the time? How do we get closer to the impact? Can we slow down enough to feel the dust, hurt, howl, absence, spill, plume?

PRESENTATIONS
February 22-24, Carolina Performing Arts, UNC Chapel Hill
January 18-21, Daniels Spectrum, Toronto CAN (presented by The Blackwood Gallery and Toronto Dance Theatre)
January 9-13 2023, New York Live Arts
April 5-8, 12-15 2023 (WORLD PREMIERE), New York Live Arts

CREATIVE TEAM
Created by Faye Driscoll
Performed by James Barrett, Kara Brody, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Amy Gernux, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Maya LaLiberté, Jennifer Nugent, Cory Seals, Carlo Antonio Villanueva, Jo Warren
Understudy: David Guzman
Past performers: Eliza Tappan
Scenic Design by Jake Margolin and Nick Vaughan
Lighting Design by Amanda K. Ringger
Sound and Music Director: Sophia Brous
Live Sound and Sound Design by Ryan Gamblin
Composition, Field recordings, Sound Design by Guillaume Soula
Costume Design by Karen Boyer
Dramaturgy and scent design by Dages Juvelier Keates
Choreographic Assistant: Amy Gernux
Intimacy coordination by Yehuda Duenyas
Lighting Director: serena wong
Production Stage Management by Emily Vizina
Production and Company Manager: Lilach Orenstein
Booking: Tommy Kriegsmann, Damien Valette

COMMISSIONING & SUPPORT
Weathering is commissioned and produced by New York Live Arts as part of the New York Live Arts Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Program and co-commissioned by Theater der Welt 2023 in Frankfurt – Offenbach, Carolina Performing Arts at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, The Joyce Theater Foundation’s Artist Residency Center, made possible by lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional commissioning support provided by Wexner Center for the Arts and members of Faye Driscoll’s Commissioners Circle.

Weathering is made possible with generous support from New York State Council on the Arts, Café Royal Cultural Foundation and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and developed with residency support from, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow, and Dancers’ Workshop.