Donna Uchizono: March Under An Empty Reign
2018
Joyce Theater, New York City
Cultural and Installation (Completed)
for Donna Uchizono Company
Fabrication: Jesse Seegers, OSP
Lighting Design: Joe Levasseur
Photography: Blaine Davis
A collaboration with the choreographer Donna Uchizono as a part of the Joyce Theater’s annual Quadrille series. We used this project to investigate overlaps between architectural form and the human body.
2018
Joyce Theater, New York City
Cultural and Installation (Completed)
for Donna Uchizono Company
Fabrication: Jesse Seegers, OSP
Lighting Design: Joe Levasseur
Photography: Blaine Davis
A collaboration with the choreographer Donna Uchizono as a part of the Joyce Theater’s annual Quadrille series. We used this project to investigate overlaps between architectural form and the human body.
Through abstraction and composition and following our initial impressions of the performance, we looked at how pressure morphs and dismorphs shape; how figures collide, move apart, and achieve delicate balances between stasis and mobility.
We used the space of the theater itself to further inflect this study, binding the set-piece to the loge, the ceiling trusses, the lighting catwalk, and the stage itself. The suspended forms were tied to each other and tied to the theater, creating multiple force vectors that kept them frozen in a dynamic state. Like a still taken of a dancer in motion, tension distorts the object that hangs mutely over the performance.
We used the space of the theater itself to further inflect this study, binding the set-piece to the loge, the ceiling trusses, the lighting catwalk, and the stage itself. The suspended forms were tied to each other and tied to the theater, creating multiple force vectors that kept them frozen in a dynamic state. Like a still taken of a dancer in motion, tension distorts the object that hangs mutely over the performance.