Are we a Fossil, and of Facings

Presented by Gibney Dance Center, March 9–12, 2016

Molly Poerstel’s Are we a Fossil, and of Facings proposes a dance in the round imbedded in a dance for the proscenium. Situating an audience inside the belly of the work, Poerstel offers complex rhythmic structures and movement patterns from which form calcifies and disintegrates. With performative agency, precision and skill, dancers reveal courageous bodies in transformation. 

Choreographed by Molly Poerstel

Performers: Jennifer Kjos, Alice MacDonald, Molly Poerstel, Tara Sheena ,and Eleanor Smith

Sound Design: Molly Poerstel

Costume Design: Molly Poerstel and Jane MacDonald

Lighting Design: Mandy Ringger

Press

The New York Times by Siobhan Burke

Culturebot by Meg Weeks

InfiniteBodyby Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Credits

Are we a Fossil, and of Facings was made possible, in part through the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Jerome Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Davis/Dauray Family Fund, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.  Are we a Fossil, and Of Facings was created with additional commissioning support from Gibney Dance with funds provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation.