What stays with me from CONTACT is the blending of the use of site/space, movement, audience engagement, imagery/art, spoken/written word and music.  It seemed to me many deliberate decisions were made about how to layer these in ways to allow me to engage with the material via a number of different modalities–sometimes experiencing autonomy and […]

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I learned just enough about each veteran to have a strong emotional feeling and yet there was enough space and choreography to let me integrate the information. I was surprised to find I related to each veteran, I related to the feeling in the room during the performance, and that I remained curious about the […]

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“CONTACT brought to the Pioneer Valley a potent opportunity to engage the reality of the impact of war on veteran’s lives, bodies, minds and souls — complex and painful truths that are generally ignored or pushed away — and to raise questions of accountability and responsibility for the rest of us.  The strong physicality of […]

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“Thinking about CONTACT, one word comes to mind: MOVING. It was visually powerful, stirring, emotionally MOVING. The performers were always MOVING, from one portrait to the next, one statement, one thought, one position to the next and so our eyes were MOVING to follow them. And our bodies, as audience members, free to find our […]

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