Image Description: A bird’s eye view of the inside of the fabric installation, with a naked white torso breaking through the installation into the center.
The Other Shore: Future Ancestors
zoe | juniper
The audience is invited to witness each soloist as they examine their birth story inside the physical container of the sculptural installation.
Information for Attendees:
The lobby opens a half hour before each scheduled performance. OtB's Fubar will be open as well! Come have a drink!
Each night will feature two dancers who will perform solo works on alternate hours between 6:00 and 9:00 pm. Your ticket has a designated start time but you are welcome to attend any or all performances on the date of your ticket. (If you attend any two consecutive hours you will see both dancers.)
On the Boards is no longer requiring proof of vaccination. For the safety of our artists and audiences, face masks are still required at all times, including during performances, except while actively eating or drinking. If you do not wear a mask, we will provide one for you
About Future Ancestors:
Future Ancestors is the second of two complementary performances. Within this immersive sculptural installation and durational performance taking place over 60 minutes, seven dancers offer different solo performances over the course of the weekend. Future Ancestors highlights the vulnerabilities of performers and audiences and examines the experience of seeing and being seen by expanding the possibilities of perception. Each dancer’s unique solo was inspired by their birth story, the works instigated by asking family about the day they were born. During each 60-minute performance installation, you are encouraged to move around the performer in the sculpture, in essence co-choreographing the performance experience with how you move about and where you stand.
DATES:
Oct 19 | 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm
Oct 20 | 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm
Oct 21 | 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm
Oct 22 | 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm
Oct 23 | 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm
Duration: 1 hour
More About The Other Shore
The Other Shore is an immersive media installation space, inviting intimate groups of audience members to experience a performance from the ground up.
At the intersection of dance, installation, video, and technology, The Other Shore is presented in two distinct sections and seeks to spark a simple shift in the structure of traditional performance to alter the relationship between audience and dancer.
In collaboration with designers Sara Brown, Evan Christian Anderson, and Bobby McElver, the work aims to expose vulnerabilities of performers and audiences. As well as examine the experience of seeing and being seen, now.
Image Descriptions:
Image 1: A bird’s eye view of a solo Black dancer on their knees in a small pool of gold paint, with their head down and hands on their back, surrounded by an installation of copper-gold and white crinkled fabrics. The dancer’s hands are covered in gold paint which they are smearing across the top of their back.
Image 2: A front view of a solo Black dancer stands with feet shoulder width apart, left hand on their hips and right hand open-palmed reaching upwards. They are shirtless and barefoot, and wearing black leggings. They are surrounded by an installation of copper-gold and white crinkled fabrics with overhead lighting instruments in view, and a black background.
Photos by Sara Brown and Juniper Shuey
Image 3: A top view with a fisheye lens on a solo Black dancer, shirtless, with gold paint covering their hands. They are holding their hands up near their face, looking at them with an intense expression. They are standing in a pool of the same gold paint, and surrounded by an installation of crinkled white and gold fabrics with a black background.
Funders:
The Other Shore premiered at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, August 17, 2021.
Funded by the Princess Grace Foundation Special Projects Grant and CCMC.
The Other Shore was co-commissioned by Jacob's Pillow and developed in the Pillow Lab, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Other Shore was co-commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillties, Arts and Social Sciences.
Made possible with support from John and Maya Robinson
Creative residency provided by On the Boards, Mass MoCA, MOTiVE and NueBox
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