Alone, OH exists in a kitchen. While no linear narrative exists, images of familiarity give rise to personal mythologies and memories. Shared tasks inform group experiences amidst moments of isolation. Sounds of a spoon stirring, dishes hitting the table, chairs scrapping the floor - drift in and around the kinetic language sweeping through the turbulent landscape. Tension, release, and sudden juxtapositions illuminate possible pathways. Everybody has a history. And on stage and in life, it can be haunting to see its final moments.
“During the creation of Alone, OH, I had the revelation that my works created for live performance shared inspiration with investigations encompassing film - movement within the frame of the lens established an elaborate layer of spatial dynamics within the existing mise-en-scene. With the addition of montage, I explored the poetics of space and the emotional resonance of time. I used storyboards, scores, colors, light, image, jump cuts, dissolves, recorded sound, live sound, movement – all woven with intricate patterns to create a textured fabric from which one could discern hints of narrative – but a narrative fractured within a structural framework of non- chronological time and place. The audience experienced a live Ingmar Bergman film filled with quiet close-ups, mystery, reality and illusion and a subtext layer of autobiographical consciousness. I created a visual score to keep track of the blending of various elements inherent to this work.”
choreography and direction: michou szabo
lighting design: joe levasseur
sound design and score: guy yarden
decor: joanne howard
set design: michou szabo and joanne howard
costume design: simile allegro
performance the mill julie Alexander . jennifer lafferty . sandy tillett
premiered at CPR center for performance research brooklyn ny january 2010
