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Made in USA | Thank You for Coming: Attendance

Faye Driscoll

Dates

Prices

5 — 10 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Monday-Tuesday
Time
21:00
Venue
Main Stage

Information

Tickets

Full price: 10 €

Reduced, Friends, Small groups (5-9 people): 8 €
Large groups (10+ people): 7 €
People with disabilities, Unemployed: 5 €
Companions: 8 €

Combo 4 tickets for "The Record" performance: 5 € per ticket

Combo 1+1: 5 € per ticket for selected performances of "Made in USA" festival: "A Piece of Work", "Age & Beauty Part 1", "Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem", "Phone Homer", "Tell Me Love Is Real", "The Record"

Duration

1 hour and 30 minutes

Five performers who never stop initiating novel approaches to the audience as they simultaneously bind themselves into an insoluble knot. Get ready to experience a live spectacle as a collective political act!

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!

Photo: Maria Baranova

Parallel Events

Monday 28 November

After performance talk with Faye Driscoll
Moderated by Nina Alcalay, dance theorist

Tuesday 29 November

Workshop with Faye Driscoll

Credits

  • Concept and Direction

    Faye Driscoll

  • Choreography

    Faye Driscoll in collaboration with the performers

  • Performance

    Giulia Carotenuto, Sean Donovan, Alicia Ohs, Toni Melaas, Brandon

  • Washington/Original Cast

    Nikki Zialcita

  • Visual Design

    Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin

  • Sound Design/Original Composition

    Michael Kiley

  • Lighting Design and Production Management

    Amanda K. Ringger

  • Tour Manager/Stage Manager

    Alessandra Calabi

  • On-Site Production Manager

    Randi Rivera

  • Artistic Advisor

    Jesse Zaritt

  • Choreographic Assistant

    Nadia Tykulsker

  • Costume Construction and Alteration

    Sarah Thea Swafford

  • "Thank You For Coming: Attendance" was made possible by

    the Danspace Project 2013-14 Commissioning Initiative; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; and Creative Capital with support from The Jerome Foundation, 92Y New Works in Dance Fund, a Headlands Alumni New Works Award and the assistance of New York State Council on the Arts, and is made possible through the sponsorship of The Field.

  • "Thank You For Coming: Attendance" received a production residency at Danspace Project’s venue, St. Mark’s Church, with support from

    the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

  • "Thank You For Coming: Attendance" is commissioned by

    Mass Live Arts through a multi-year residency and presentation commitment.

  • Faye Driscoll received residency support from

    Park Avenue Armory, along with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Extended Life Dance Development program made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

  • Premiere

    Danspace Project, New York, 6 March 2014

Sponsoring / partnerships

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