"a world, a world" has the form of a diptych, It first invites audiences into an extravagantly immersive landscape saturated by shards of movement, sound, image, and language—a tumult that stutters and sputters out, yielding to a second, spacious, luminous, and meditative world. First presented as a work-in-progress in December 2017, this work is the culminating chapter in ("Un)Made," a multi-year body of work investigating the limits and porosity of the individual self in relation to the multitude of possible spaces we inhabit: performative, collective, socio-political, and devotional. https://unmade.net/ Complete video at https://vimeo.com/pwnw/aworld Choreographed by Linda Austin in collaboration with the cast: claire barrera, Muffie Delgado Connelly, Nancy Ellis, Hannah Krafcik, Danielle Ross, and Noelle Stiles Songs by Linda Austin Sound design & promo video by Seth Nehil Lighting design by Jeff Forbes Visual design and costumes by Sarah Marguier Set design by Linda Austin Carpentry by Seth Nehil & Spencer Byrne-Seres Set painting by Meg Morrigan Photography by Chelsea Petrakis Allie Hankins, gin camou, keyon gaskin, Jen Hackworth, and Takahiro Yamamoto were integral to the development and performance of the 2017 work-in-process version of a world, a world. The development of a world, a world during 2017-2020 was made possible by early performances at On the Boards' NW New Works, the Risk/Reward Festival, a 2019 residency with PICA’s Creative Exchange Lab, and Austin’s 2017 Foundation for the Contemporary Arts Merce Cunningham Award. These 2020 performances of a world, a world are made possible with funding from the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation.
