galithea

At a point where the tundra meets the forest and the desert meets the sea, we find two individuals desperate to share common ground; beautifully broken, and attempting to weather their own storm.

The piece is a duet choreographed by Annie Rigney to the music of David Bruce and Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project, and performed by Georgia Usborne and Jason Reese Cianciulli.

The work explores an ecological phenomenon known as the Edge Effect*, wherein two distinct landscapes or habitats meet and interact, producing a third, unique, and other-worldly ecosystem. This concept is explored in the meeting, melding, and colliding of the 2 dancer's bodies and physicalities and is also felt and experienced in the music; in which Cristina Pato of the Silk Road Ensemble plays her Galician Bagpipes-a cultural manifestation of the creative collision of the Spanish traditions with the Celtic ones, which visited the Iberian Peninsula and Spain in Antiquity.