Set Zero (two)
Premiered at Jacob’s Pillow inside/out, MA
Sound Composition for Dance Piece
During a weeklong Fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow, we re-choreographed a duet first commissioned by and created in collaboration with Zenon Dance Company. What was developed as a duet for five different couples became a quartet for the expansive, picturesque Inside/Out stage.
Our additional charge was to develop a pre-show performance event that would operate site-specifically. For 30 minutes preceding the show, we and fellow performers Myssi Robinson and Hsiao-Jou Tang performed improvised scores in myriad locations on the Jacob’s Pillow property.
Once onstage, we danced repeated resets that incrementally thrust us forward into the work’s chronology. The quartet is in hyper attunement to the shifting events of the work, each change governed by any performer’s desire to initiate the introduction of new material. The piece was developed collaboratively with the performers and the sound was composed by Will Owen.