Part Song/Immortal Life at Danspace Project, November 2024

“Part Song/Immortal Life is a piece of tectonic shifts and unruly bodies. It starts so slowly you can barely tell what’s happening. Ayano invites viewing that makes you notice the smallest change. If you watch closely, your experience will match the feeling of the dancers. When the body moves slowly, every weight change is an earthquake. Tilting your head is a drastic reordering of the system, a forward fold is a revolution. Yet in all that slowness, Part Song/Immortal Life ends in a cacophony and you don’t even realize you’re there until it’s upon you. When at first the smallest change was monumental, now anything could happen. Chaos out of nothing at all.” – Noa Rui-Pinn Weiss

Part Song/Immortal Life at Danspace Project
Thursday, November 21 | 7:30PM
Friday, November 22 | 7:30PM
Saturday, November 23 | 7:30PM

https://danspaceproject.org/calendar/elson-gray-fw24/

Part Song/Immortal Life draws on the community-centered participatory design text A Pattern Language (Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, and Sara Ishikawa 1977). Performers Amelia Heintzelman, Jade Manns, and evan ray suzuki; composer Matt Evans; and musicians Leo Chang, Tristan Kasten-Krause, and Zosha Warpeha treat the space as a site of surveillance—disappearing, disguising, revealing, and tracking the body within the architecture of the church and processing sensations of seduction, communion, speculation, and violence. Costumes by Kate Williams and lighting by Lutin Tanner

Press: Danspace Journal + NYTimes