ABOUT THE DANCES

Ziggurat 2022 features a 12-foot spinning sculpture designed by industrial artist Jared Doster. The climbable sculpture requires teamwork as dancers vault, swing, and flip through the space. “The audiences’ close proximity to the sculpture really allows them to experience the dancer’s physicality,” states Andy Noble. “It might make you gasp.”

Dionne Noble’s Houston premier of The Watering Hole is a commentary on meaningless bureaucracy and our insatiable desire for purpose. Other dances include Spider’s Den, a suspenseful duet, and The Promise, a duet about love and sacrifice.

The evening is rounded out by, My Flesh, My Fog, an innovative film collaboration with Jeremy Stewart and A.I./Machine Learning. The film, shot entirely in a white room, was edited, and sent to A.I./Machine Learning. The A.I. studied and reinterpreted the film. The two versions were then edited together, creating a strange blending of the corporeal and A.I. world. This is the first film of its kind.

Performers include Aidan Aloma, Dillon Bell, Laura Bender, Rachel Cox Culver, Justin Curry, LaRodney Freeman, Emma Grace Holthram, Colette Kerwick, Kalli Loudan, Lindsey McGill, Tyler Orcutt, Jacob Regan, Alexandria Rodriguez, Abby Schafer, Lauren Serrano, Joseph Stevens, Angelica Villa, Allison Wallace, and Evan Warner and guest dancers. Original music is composed by Travis Lake, Alex Davis and light design is by Bryan Ealey.