Photo by João Octávio Peixoto / TMP
Weathering
By Faye Driscoll. Premiere: 2023, New York Live Arts
Weathering is a multi-sensory flesh sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects. Ten people (dancers/singers/crew) enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene. Their voices generate a score that crescendos and resonates as they clutch, careen and cleave, in a space too small to contain them, spilling off the edges. The audience embanks the performers, close enough to smell the sweat and feel the steam of the central, spiraling scenes. The symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking, choreography of micro events within a momentum thrusting from just beyond the perceivable. Driscoll and her team of collaborators ask: How do we feel the impact of events moving through us which are so much larger? Yet are animating and activating our bodies all the time? How do we get closer to the impact? Can we slow down enough to feel the dust, hurt, howl, absence, spill, plume?
photo by: Angel Origgi
CREATIVE TEAM
Created by Faye Driscoll
Performed by James Barrett, Kara Brody, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Amy Gernux, Maya LaLiberté, Mykel Marai Nairne, Jennifer Nugent, Cory Seals, Carlo Antonio Villanueva, Jo Warren
Understudies: David Guzman, Marie Lloyd Paspe
Past performers: Marjani Forte-Saunders, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Eliza Tappan
Scenic Design by Jake Margolin and Nick Vaughan
Lighting Design by Amanda K. Ringger
Sound and Music Director: Sophia Brous
Live Sound and Sound Design by Ryan Gamblin
Composition, Field recordings, Sound Design by Guillaume Soula
Costume Design by Karen Boyer
Dramaturgy and scent design by Dages Juvelier Keates
Choreographic Assistant: Amy Gernux
Intimacy coordination by Yehuda Duenyas
PRESENTATIONS
UPCOMING: July 15-19, 2026, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Doris Duke Theater, Becket MA
November 12-15 2025, Festival d’Automne, CENTQUATRE Paris, Paris France
October 10-12 2025, Autumn Meteorite Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Theater, Tokyo, Japan
September 4-6 2025, Philadelphia Fringe Festival presented by FringeArts, Philadelphia PA
July 4-6 2025, Julidans Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 27-29 2025, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Athens, Greece
June 19-22 2025, Festival de Marseille, Marseille, France
April 24-26 2025, OZ Arts Nashville, Nashville TN
February 6-9 2025, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, Los Angeles CA
November 15-17 2024, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston MA
November 8 2024, Teatro Municipal do Porto Rivoli, Porto, Portugal
November 2+3 2024, Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon, Portugal
June 3-5 2024, Festival TransAmeriques, Montreal, Canada
May 18-212024, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium
February 22-24 2024, Carolina Performing Arts, UNC Chapel Hill
January 18-21 2024, Daniels Spectrum, Toronto CAN (presented by Blackwood Gallery)
January 9-13 2024, New York Live Arts, NY
April 5-8, 12-15 2023 (WORLD PREMIERE), New York Live Arts, NY