Faye Driscoll
Thank You For Coming: SPACE
Thank You For Coming: SPACE, Faye Driscoll © Maria Baranova ©
Thank You For Coming: SPACE, Faye Driscoll © Maria Baranova ©
Thank You For Coming: SPACE, Faye Driscoll © Maria Baranova ©
Creation and interpretation, Faye Driscoll
Visual design, Nick Vaughan, Jake Margolin
Lighting, Amanda K. Ringger
Sound, Andrew Gilbert
Music and sound, Faye Driscoll
Artistic advisors, Jesse Zaritt, Sacha Yanow
Text Advisor, Amanda Davidson
Additional consultant, Dages Juvelier Keates
Technical director, Serena Wong
Sound Manager, Cordey Lopez
Broadcast, Amy Gernux
Creative Producer, Rachel Cook
Commissioned by Peak Performances, as part of the Performing Arts Research Lab (PeARL), Montclair State University, New Jersey; commissioned in collaboration with the Walker Art Center, with financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund, the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University as part of the Wexner Center Residency Award Program; with the generous support of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Program and the Jerome Foundation Show supported by Creative Capital, developed with the support of the Camargo Foundation, the Pillow Lab at Jacob's Pillow and the Rauschenberg Foundation Show created at the Alexander Kasser Theater - Montclair State University The show is dedicated to Maureen Delvina Byrnes and Lawrason James Driscoll
T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Centre Dramatique National ; Festival d'Automne à Paris
How can we be together? Thank You For COMING: SPACE, created in 2019, is a shared rite of passage – an invocation of the transformative powers of presence and absence. In it, the American artist Faye Driscoll explores the power of performance in terms of how it enables us to experience what binds us together.
SPACE unfurls by means of an intimate installation, using suspended microphones, strings and pulleys, and in which Faye Driscoll appears alone in the middle of the spectators. Although she is the only performer, SPACE is by no means a solo: throughout the performance, she explores different ways of connecting with the audience. The American artist considers theatre as one of the last remaining secular social spaces in which the vulnerability and complexity of human interconnectedness become palpable. In SPACE, which brings her Thank You for Coming trilogy to a close, she pursues the reflections that are at the heart of her choreographic work: during a performance, what links are woven between the observer and the observed? How can these connections be experienced? Mixing body, objects, voice and live sound, Faye Driscoll looks upon SPACE as a requiem for the human body and evokes a world that is, like us, alive and constantly changing.
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