Made in USA | Thank You for Coming: Attendance

New York’s Faye Driscoll is a charismatic artist. She often takes what we do all together as her subject-matter—her aim: to make viewers realize that they are part of something bigger than themselves, of an entity that transcends them. Judging from “Attendance”, the first part of her “Thank you for coming...” trilogy, she seems to be succeeding.

Attendance is an amazing, charming, authentic, intelligent, humorous work. Its five performers never stop initiating novel approaches to the audience as they simultaneously bind themselves into an insoluble knot. This highly allusive entanglement brings an endless sequence of new body narratives to the surface, while inviting the audience on a journey-without-end on which they will rediscover the experience of group choreography.

Everything is called into question: from how the group greets the audience and how the spectacle is staged in space to who plays the performer and who the viewer. Forming a cordon around the performers, the audience is invited to become part of the action, to follow the urban dance taking place before them, and to participate in its delightful chaos. Get ready to experience a live spectacle as a collective political act!