Always the Hour
April 4-6th, 6-9 pm, 2023. Icebox project space
Presented by Philadelphia Dance Projects, with support from Icebox
Made possible with generous support by American Dance Asylum in collaboration with 171 Cedar Arts
“…Annie proposes that perhaps it is land that’s singing, “the ground that holds your people’s bones,” calling you back to it. She gets so personal, and then so meta. One moment her song references matrilineal baking heritage and I’m thinking about my own grandmother, and the shortbread I make for my family every year. Then, WHAM: the next instant, Annie’s song is asking me to contemplate the enormity of Sagittarius A, the black star that the entire Milky Way revolves around. I remember I am stardust. Come back home.” — Megan Bridge, thINKing Dance
photo by Johanna Austin, austinart.org
Always the Hour practices embodied lineage in order to understand patrimony and the fractal nature of the family forest. I am drawing on the myths of Prometheus, the Philadelphia Eagles football team, Christ’s sacred (sexy) side wound, and my family history. I think about Gub a mile up in the sky and six feet underground when he tried to tunnel out of the POW camp. I am searching for answers for why I am the way I am, why my family is the way they are, why we move through the world the way we do.
Collaborative Team
Direction: Rebecca Wright
Production Stage Management: Payton Smith
Co-creation and performance: Ciera Gardner, Shannon Murphy, Jaime Maseda, and Copper Santiago
Environmental Design: Harbour Edney, Sunny Lucas, Krista Smith
Projection Design: Taj Rauch
Sound Design: Adriano Shaplin
Costume Design: Kimberly Max Brown, PhD
Film Narrative Consultant: Jorge Cousineau
Somatic Process Maven: Janna Meiring
