IMAGINARY
Mixing dance/theater, storytelling, lighting design and original audio scores, Lida Winfield creates IMAGINARY, a quirky, innovative yet socially poignant work that explores perception in relationship to the imagination.
IMAGINARY playfully and directly challenges our expectations and perceptions of ourselves, others and our world. At a time when we are experiencing division, fear, and misinformation, exploring our perceptions around identity is critical. Creativity, and community are deeply needed at this time. IMAGINARY investigates our real and imagined perceptions of each other and the impact these impressions have. What do we have in common? How are we different from each other? How does imagination contribute to our fears?
IMAGINARY brings together the creative capacities of performers Lida Winfield, Ellen Smith Ahern, Maree ReMalia and Joseph Hall, in collaboration with set design by Colin C Boyd, lighting design by Jennifer Ponder and costume design by Mira Veikley. This interdisciplinary full-length performance has received the National Performance Network's Creation and Development Support in partnership with The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, Middlebury College, and The Yard. It premiered at The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in February of 2018.
The ensemble has reconvened for residencies at Vermont Performance Lab and Jacob's Pillow. While being supported through the National Performance Network Forth Fund through a residency at Bates Dance Festival, the team reworked parts of the performance, and added a new cast member Matthew Evan Taylor, who created original live music for the piece and became a fully moving member of the ensemble.
IMAGINARY playfully and directly challenges our expectations and perceptions of ourselves, others and our world. At a time when we are experiencing division, fear, and misinformation, exploring our perceptions around identity is critical. Creativity, and community are deeply needed at this time. IMAGINARY investigates our real and imagined perceptions of each other and the impact these impressions have. What do we have in common? How are we different from each other? How does imagination contribute to our fears?
IMAGINARY brings together the creative capacities of performers Lida Winfield, Ellen Smith Ahern, Maree ReMalia and Joseph Hall, in collaboration with set design by Colin C Boyd, lighting design by Jennifer Ponder and costume design by Mira Veikley. This interdisciplinary full-length performance has received the National Performance Network's Creation and Development Support in partnership with The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, Middlebury College, and The Yard. It premiered at The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in February of 2018.
The ensemble has reconvened for residencies at Vermont Performance Lab and Jacob's Pillow. While being supported through the National Performance Network Forth Fund through a residency at Bates Dance Festival, the team reworked parts of the performance, and added a new cast member Matthew Evan Taylor, who created original live music for the piece and became a fully moving member of the ensemble.
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