When faced with questions beyond our understanding, how do we make sense of ourselves, our perceptions, and one another? Erika and Francesca explore these questions of fundamental uncertainty through several different modalities, seeking to discover different ways that they can be resolved in practice, in the body, in movement, and in being together.
Working with improvised text and speaking, they generate fictional narratives on the spot, weaving a continually shifting landscape of truth and fiction that emerges organically through the challenge of maintaining a difficult task. Through choreographed movement they explore subtleties of being present with another person within a complex structure. Durational movement scores provide a doorway into a more patient, contemplative questioning of the themes in the work.
creation, performance Francesca Frewer & Erika Mitsuhashi
sound Jack Jutson and Liam Butler / Pender Street Steppers
text Francesca Frewer
costumes Jae Woo Kang
projection design Erika Mitsuhashi and Jack Chipman
lighting design Jack Chipman and Kyla Gardiner
technical direction Jack Chipman
with support from plastic orchid factory, New Works, Upintheair Theatre and Canada Council for the arts
photos of Francesca Frewer & Erika Mitsuhashi by Victor Tran
We acknowledge that we live, work and play on the unceded territories of the xwmǝθkwǝy̓ǝm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. We strive to learn from, and be allies with, Indigenous Peoples.