Video clip from the Puffin Room performance
Edisa Weeks (Dance and Choreography)
Owen Molloy (Tuba)
John Savage (Flute & Dijeridoo)
Matt Shulman (Trumpet, electronics)
Liubo Borissov (Interactive technology)
The piece explores a woman's relationship with her shadow. It asks what would happen if your shadow reflected your inexpressible psychological states? What if your shadow had dreams and longings of its own? What if your shadow broke free and began to move independently?
In the piece Edisa Weeks' movement and shadow are projected onto a screen. The light, dense, elusive, and tangible textures of her shadow are then manipulated through a computer interface developed by Liubo Borissov, endowing the shadows with a life independent of their creator. The music for FIELD of SHADOWS, performed live by John Savage, Owen Malloy and Matt Shulman, both captivates and reflects the shadow's emanations, at times reacting and transforming the shadow's movements into sound, and at other times sonically dictating the shadow's movements through spontaneous composition.
FIELD of SHADOWS investigates the transformation and interaction between reality (performers in three dimensional space) and the unreality of perception (two dimensional shadows, traces on a screen) and questions who is influencing who. Does the corporeal control the metaphysical, does the ego control the id, are we a product of our environment, or does our free will rule?
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Higher-res press images are available here: [1] [2]. A full record of the performance is available at the Kennedy Center Archive.