An original score/sound design reflecting the wildly divergent approaches of the piece's two halves. In the first, sonic fragments were culled from movie scenes, television commercials, YouTube videos, pop songs, and nursery rhymes gathered by the dancers themselves.  Sources were micro-edited into short bursts synced to precise cues, shards of not-quite-recognizable sonic detritus colliding with elaborate onstage recitations.

After a brief reset performed to a stripped-down rhythmic track, the strategy shifted completely. Within an all-white set, dancers followed a loose improvisational score — adjusting plants, holding positions, speaking words. Each approached a microphone to ring a bell, click stones, speak. Their sounds altered and mixed in real time, loops within loops, against a sparse backing of pure tones.

Performance Works NW, Portland OR — December 2017