Photo: Jennifer Mazza
This piece is a continuation of ideas began in creative research projects (both titled A Simple Form of Matter) with Colby students in 2011 and as a Summer Stages Choreographic Fellow in 2012. Both edited and expanded, it refines the use of text adapted from Clifford Odets to set up a context, which combined with set pieces (chairs), establishes a concrete ambiguity and requires the dancers to explore negotiating action in tight spaces that they mold, move, and remake. There is an ominous tone—is this world being built or broken down?