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Choreographer Zoe Scofield and visual artist Juniper Shuey’s latest work, A Crack in Everything, is a stunning reminder of what dance is and always has been: a ritual performance that gives physical expression to our most fundamental cosmological investigations.
But what’s remarkable is how Scofield’s movement takes form on a series of spatial planes that emerge and recede as the work unfolds upon its varied multi-dimensional tracks. Shuey’s elaborate set is a matrix of reflections, projections, and shadows on glossy and textured surfaces that continually shift our understanding of depth and sensory perception.
Combined, Scofield’s bodies and Shuey’s stagecraft take us beyond the immediacy of our surroundings, breaking down and informing our sense of the larger world. Like the freed prisoners described by Socrates in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave (Book VII of The Republic), we are left to ponder the limits of what we had been looking at beforehand.
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Choreographer Zoe Scofield and visual artist Juniper Shuey offer a surreal, visually arresting examination of the gap between cause and effect in A Crack in Everything. The evening-length work explores the enduring questions of justice posed in the Greek tragedy The Oresteia through dramatic video and costumes, atmospheric installations and lighting, and Scofield’s ritualistic movement. A Crack in Everything was made over a span of 2 years with production residencies at OtB and in Hungary, New Zealand and at the prestigious MacDowell Colony (New Hampshire).After first appearing at OtB in the 2005 NW New Works Festival, the company has gone on to create 3 full-length works and has been commissioned by the likes of Spectrum Dance Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, DC), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Bates Dance Festival and New York Live Arts. A Crack In Everything premiered in July 2011 at Jacob’s Pillow before commencing a national and international tour throughout the 11/12 season. Read less
Choreographer Zoe Scofield and visual artist Juniper Shuey offer a surreal, visually arresting examination of the gap between cause and effect in A Crack in Everything. The evening-length work... Read more
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