man/Mother

Free in-person showing at Green Space, followed by post-performance discussion

Choreography by Valerie Green

Performed by Fumihiro Kikuchi, Jonathan Matthews, Richard Scandola

Original Music by Philip Butta

Capacity is extremely limited. RSVP is required to Info@DanceEntropy.org. All persons in the studio (including dancers) are required to wear masks at all times.

man/Mother is an all-male trio, which composes three separately made solos to original music by Philip Butta. The solos translate emotions, specifically connected to each dancer’s experience of the global COVID-19 pandemic, into movement initiated from emotionally resonant bodily regions. The dancers maintain a separateness of focus with a simultaneously intense awareness of each other in space, as well as a deep reliance on one another for timing - quite literally together while apart. A thick branch, suspended down stage center, makes its way into each of the three physical trails. Both an obstacle and a comfort, it confronts us with hard truths that demand reflection and action. Why would mother nature create such an affliction? What have we done as humans to contribute to bringing it into being? How can we mend our fragmented relationship with that which made us?