At the Threshold (2009) Choreography, Sound Mix: Joséphine A. Garibaldi
Humbled by the beauty of light falling through an open door as the sun was setting, this work inquires into ruminations about shadow, light and metaphors of door. The performers were asked to write; from their writings movement was created. These movement phrases became the choreography; their spoken text illuminated the sound score.- JG
Humbled by the beauty of light falling through an open door as the sun was setting, this work inquires into ruminations about shadow, light and metaphors of door. The performers were asked to write; from their writings movement was created. These movement phrases became the choreography; their spoken text illuminated the sound score.- JG
“At the Threshold features a provocative,
thought out, powerful and nicely constructed audio score. The tension
created by the prison sounding doors and the frenzied whispering not
only created a textural impression but a qualitative experience for the
viewer sitting in the dark […]. The opening sequence uses the stage
space as if it were a black lake between the audience and the dancer
balanced in the threshold. The opening solo drew me into this in-between
world, a threshold net of trapped dreams and thoughts unable to move
forward or backward just stuck in a vertical world, balanced and wedged
into the situation, trying to function, trying to step forward […] I was
moved by this work. Philosophically I was left thinking about
opportunity knocking. Braving the fear and the choice of walking though a
door into the unknown. What is beyond? What gets left behind? What
happens next? And as the score says ‘When a door closes, what do you
do?’”
– Elizabeth Miklavcic, Artistic Director, Another Language Performance Company
– Elizabeth Miklavcic, Artistic Director, Another Language Performance Company
