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The full evening of story telling, dance and performance art, is woven together to reveal the details and interior landscapes of two people. “And Again, We Meet”-- opens with a full stage set of dominoes, ready to fall. The collapsed pattern would create the space for the first movement section to take place. Two middle-age characters are the reoccurring protagonists in a playful, yet haunting twist of historic time.
From the recreation of Ceres' gothic, Victorian duet set to a sparse and breathy score, “Underneath, all these nothings”- a haunting piece, inspired by the Brothers’ Quay’s full-length feature film, Institute Benjamenta- to a 1920’s short story by Gertrude Stein, spoken through a set of ping pong, and on through this century of game-playing and love-making, there is an interpersonal progression from independence to dependence within the performers’ relationships as they revisit each other throughout different periods in historical time. It is as if the time it takes to “know” another person is equal to all time, past, present and future—and each separate journey is full of the same collective stories, revelations, boredom and disasters, spread along unique timelines. Historic lesbian reference, twisted social-leisure activities, intricate dance and honest risk fuse to create a performance story to speak for all love affairs.
Sounds collages, composed by Ari Messer round the evening’s score with verbal and non-verbal characterization through literature by and about Gertrude Stein and Bertolt Brecht.
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