Dages Juvelier Keates

Weathering (2023)

Faye Driscoll

In her latest creation, artist Faye Driscoll and her team of collaborators ask: How do we feel the impact of events moving through us which are so much larger? Yet animating and activating our bodies all the time? How do we get closer to the impact? Can we slow down enough to feel the dust, hurt, howl, absence, spill, plume?

Weathering is a multi-sensory flesh sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects. Ten people (dancers/singers/crew) enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene. Their voices generate a score that crescendos and resonates as they clutch, careen and cleave, in a space too small to contain them, spilling off the edges. The audience embanks the performers, close enough to smell the sweat and feel the steam of the central, spiralling scenes. The symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking, choreography of micro events within a momentum thrusting from just beyond the perceivable.

WEATHERING Premiered April 2023, at NYLA in New York City

READ: Durations of Soft Detail: A Companionate Reader for Weathering

Calving (2022)

Faye Driscoll

Calving invites us to settle in and examine our attention. The production crafts environments in which details accrete into scenes of compounding complexity. Nothing is lost: voices, props, and costumes appear, fall apart, and recycle themselves iteratively. We are infinitely cannibalized, undone, remixed, and yet, we seek for constancy. What do we do with the shape that we are in?

CALVING Premiered June 2022, at the Kleines Haus, Theater Bremen, Bremen, Germany

READ: Where We Stand Essay for Unusual Symptoms on Calving