April 3-5 at 8:30pm
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Carrie Ahern Dance presents a new evening length piece, The Unity of Skin. The Unity of Skin plunges the viewer into a circular labyrinth of textures. Cyclic in character, it permits the imagination to distort form. It embraces the possibility of continuing indefinitely. Dizzily growing and fading, the line between audience and performers becomes blurred. Partly influenced by the fragments of text left by the group of philosophers called the Pre-Socratics, The Unity of Skin is an intimate trio with accomplished dancers David Figueroa, Kelly Hayes, and Jillian Hollis. It features a malleable crocheted set and costumes by Olek www.agataolek.com that evolves as the performance progresses. Cellist Greg Heffernan www.gregheffernan.com composes an original score performed live for cello and laptop.
This current multidisciplinary project, commissioned by Danspace Project in NYC, and also presented by Baltimore Theatre Project, is ambitious both in the scope of themes and the demands of performance. The Unity of Skin builds on her ongoing academic studies of philosophy, collaboration with a visual artist, original musical accompaniment, and the collective effort of her dancers. This hypnotic work seeks to create through physical vocabulary an earnest discussion on finding authentic commonality in a world of superficiality.
"It is not possible to step twice into the same river." "The beginning and the end are common on the circumference of a circle." Heraclitus