80 min. 

 

Premiere:

Governors Island (NYC), June 2016

 

Choreography & Direction:

Danielle Russo

 

Performance:

Jason Collins

Ingrid Kapteyn

 

Set Design:

Joanna DeFelice

 

Costume Design:

Jenny Lai

 

Film:

Luke Ohlson

 

Photography:

Whitney Browne

Nima Chaichi

Technical Aspects:

10,000 lbs of fertilizer-free soil

2 portable shower units (1 qt ea.)

1 wireless speaker; no electricity needed

1 hose line; on-site water source preferred 

2 protective tarps & pool lining provided

1 nectarine

+ nectarines for audience; pending site approval 

 

 

 

SALOME, AND THE ANATOMY OF INVISIBLE CORNERS

AN INTIMATE, SITE-SPECIFIC DANCE THEATER PRODUCTION BURIED IN THE GUTS OF ABANDONED POOL SPACES CONTEMPLATING OBEDIENCE, RITUAL, AND THE RITUALIZED BODY.

 
 

Two dancers inhabit a shared body over an 80-minute​ descent, cycling through devotional studies in purification and​ burial rites, architectures of worship, recurring postures and​ gesticulations in depictions of religious martyrdom, and the​ gendered mythologies of Salome​—the submissive, the sinful, the second body. Faith as protocol, as guarantee is further linked to fervent behaviors and compulsive patterns symptomatic of anxiety disorders.

 
 
 

Here, Jason Collins performs penance and absolution as part of a final solo sequence steeped in the stamina of choreographic repetition—or, rote prayer. During its live performances, audiences were​ invited to witness the work from the upper pool deck or interior​ shallow end, as reflected in the moving, close-proximity film​ coverage provided by documentarian Luke Ohlson.