“Everywhere the Edges” Creation and Development

Photo: Kevin MacCormack

How do we navigate constant change?  Is there an ethos for living in precarity? These questions drive Everywhere the Edges, a performance installation of off-ground choreography performed within, on, under, around—and created simultaneously with—a voluminous Janet Echelman net sculpture. Activated and transformed by dancers, the work is a synthesis of experimental dance, avant-garde circus, engineering, sound art, kinetic sculpture and public art.

During my year in Canada I am grateful to have had the opportunity to develop this work with commissioning support from Live Art Dance, through developmental partnerships with Mocean Dance and Breaking Circus and with funding from Princeton University, Canada Council for the Arts, and the National Creation Fund. I honor and thank the extraordinary collaborating artists: lighting designer Leigh Ann Vardy; music collaborators New Hermitage; riggers Ryan Gray and Dawn Shepherd; and the Nova Scotian performers who dedicated focused time and energy to research: Dylan Brentwood, Gillian Seaward-Boone, Leah Skerry, Dawn Shepherd, Anastasia Wiebe, and Lydia Zimmer.  

Special thanks to Arts Strategist Tonya Lockyer, for guiding the process.

Photos: Kevin MacCormack