Artist Statement

The kernel of this production orbits around liminal space; places which exist for taking someone from one place to another and investigating how those spaces create journeys for those who traverse them.

Everybody, the audience, journeys into this shared space (the theater), and they are confronted with each other and by extension themselves. Their whole is like the ensemble, that of the Everybody. This collective takes part in a lottery, a chance which physicalizes the ritual act of performing that which will never be the same each time it occurs. A dance of death ushers us further in our journey to the end, another example of ritual, of making something from the most destructive end, death.

This group is bound together, all the people and things that have guided us on this journey are there briefly, until the final realization that it is ultimately a solitary experience. Others may be present, but our being is unique. We are alone together. Light then, takes on a few necessities in this play, it is transformative of space, and it is flux of time. Light helps drive abstraction in space. It can help create places that are uncanny, that bend logic, that go on forever, but that structurally, are clearly are about travel, a journey between points. It can also give us spaces that are as much defined by light as by the architecture.

Ultimately, the goal is using light in tandem with the other design elements to enter a sense of malleable infinite spaces.

The finality of Everybody is another transition. What awaits on the other side is different for all the participants. Even in the shared moment, it is distinct, but for that instant as the action is moving past us, we can share something.