Photo: JH Kertis, March 20 rehearsal
tonight
which is last night
tomorrow
or
the time we make
Sunday June 5, 4:30pm
@ University City Arts League, Backyard
4226 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA
The performance will be followed by our annual friendraiser/fundraiser, Meet The Naked Stark
The performance is FREE!
You’re welcome to head out afterwards or buy a ticket and join us for Meet The Naked Stark.
"Through a collage of bodies, sounds, experiences, scores, gazes, conversations, performers, pedestrians, animals, weather, and a Mr. Softee, The Naked Stark merges the past, the present, and the future."
-- Lu Donovan, thINKingDANCE
FULL ARTICLE
tonight / which is last night / tomorrow / or / the time we make is a dance and music quartet for public space: examining time as a blueprint for experience, a construct, the distance between moments, a way to perceive change. Collaborators and performers, Ajibola Rivers (cello), Andy Thierauf (percussion), Harlee Trautman (dance), and Katherine Kiefer Stark (dance), invite the audience to witness up-close as music and movement spill across a 12’x16’ rug. Shifting between established structures and the unchartedness of spontaneity, we propel each other through the performance.
The work emerges from our desire to hold time qualitatively while living inside a dominant culture that quantifies and monetizes it. We notice the ways this capitalist lens asks us to perceive time as steady, logical, and regular. As we wonder how to transcend these constructs, our work is an effort to capture the less rigid sensations of presence and memory. Overlapping, looping, disrupting, supporting: we navigate and surface our individual emotional experiences of time through our mediums and in our relationships with each other.
