a performnce trilogy
A site-specific performance Hirshorn Museum Courtyard. A dance & drum collaboration with by Andrew & Claire. A time lapse of the summer solstice, a meditation on landscape, a moving paiting, an abstract ritual, a sonic journey, a celebration of the sun.
Choreography: Claire Alrich
Sound by Andrew Toy.
Costumes by: Claire Alrich & Mara Menahan
Performance by: Vivian Chen, MissJessica Denson, Emi Kawashima, Patricia Mullaney-Loss, Thomas Northrup.
scenes from an elevator ascending
September 9 & 10, 2023
Dance Place Arts Park
A site specific dance installation for the Dance Place Arts Park for the DC Choreographers Festival. Three dancers weave in and out of twin twenty foot curtains who do their own dance in the wind. The lines blur between costume, set, objects, bodies, choreography, and environmental chance.
Directed & conceived by: Claire Alrich
Costumes & Set: Claire Alrich with Mara Menahan. hand painted cotton, sewn and dyed silk and reclaimed curtains
Performance by: Jessica Denson, Emi Kawashima, & Patricia Mullaney-Loss
Original sound score: musician Santiago Quintana
slow walk for you (while the planet spins)
August 2023
Barrington, Rhode Island
This performance begins with a procession. Three dancers unfold rectangular fabric forms, composed of silk and transparent windows, each with a painted frame (a comet, dandelion seeds and a volcanic eruption). In formation with members of the audience, the group carries the fabric outstretched like flags down a grassy hill, across an intertidal marsh and onto the beach. With audience assistance, the dancers slip into the fabric forms, their imagery suddenly animate. Like three fates of time, their movement considers forces of change: wind and water erosion, the earth turning on its axis, a human presence on the landscape.
A site-specific performance made in collaboration with Mara Menahan & Marissa Hutton
Costumes: hand painted cotton, sewn and dyed silk and reclaimed curtains