“An enthralling, epically adventurous work” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Being in a place, being in an era, for instance an era of mass extinction, is intrinsically uncanny. We haven’t been paying much attention.”
-Timothy Morton, All Art is Ecological
Faye Driscoll’s newest work Weathering is a multi-sensory flesh sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects. Ten people (dancers/singers/crew) enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene. Their voices generate a score that crescendos and resonates as they clutch, careen and cleave, in a space too small to contain them, spilling off the edges. The audience embanks the performers, close enough to smell the sweat and feel the steam of the central, spiraling scenes. The symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking, choreography of micro events within a momentum thrusting from just beyond the perceivable. Driscoll and her team of collaborators ask: How do we feel the impact of events moving through us which are so much larger? Yet are animating and activating our bodies all the time? How do we get closer to the impact? Can we slow down enough to feel the dust, hurt, howl, absence, spill, plume?
Created by Faye Driscoll
Performed by: James Barrett, Kara Brody, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Amy Gernux, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Jennifer Nugent, Cory Seals, Eliza Tappan, Carlo Antonio Villanueva, Jo Warren
Sound and Music Direction by Sophia Brous
Scenic Design by Jake Margolin and Nick Vaughan
Lighting Design by Amanda Ringger
Sound Design by Ryan Gamblin
Additional Composition and Field Recording by Guillaume Malaret
Dramaturgy by Dages Juvelier Keates
Choreographic Assistant: Amy Gernux
Intimacy coordination by Yehuda Duenyas
Production stage management by Emily Vizina
PRESENTATIONS
April 24-26 2025, OZ Arts Nashville, Nashville TN
February 6-9 2025, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, Los Angeles CA
November 15-17 2024, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston MA
November 8 2024, Teatro Municipal do Porto Rivoli, Porto, Portugal
November 2+3 2024, Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon, Portugal
June 3-5 2024, Festival TransAmeriques, Montreal, Canada
May 18-212024, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium
February 22-24 2024, Carolina Performing Arts, UNC Chapel Hill
January 18-21 2024, Daniels Spectrum, Toronto CAN (presented by The Blackwood Gallery and Toronto Dance Theatre)
January 9-13 2024, New York Live Arts, NY
April 5-8, 12-15 2023 (WORLD PREMIERE), New York Live Arts, NY
PRESS
Artillery Mag, “Faye Driscoll at REDCAT” (review, Weathering, March 2025)
Cultured Magazine, “The Year in Art: Our Critic’s Top 10 Moments” (Weathering, selected by Johanna Fateman)
Le Devoir, “‘Weathering’: human erosion’“ — Catherine Lalonde (interview with Faye on Weathering, June 2024)
La Presse, “Festival TransAmériques/ Weathering Review” — Iris Gagnon-Paradis (review, Weathering, June 2024)
l’oeil d’olivier, “Kunstenfestivaldesarts: after us – the flood?” — Samuel Gleyze-Esteban (festival review, May 2024)
Public Journal, “Bodies in Catastrophic Interdependence” — Angel Callander (interview with Faye on Weathering, February, 2024)
The New York Times, “On Faye Driscoll’s Life Raft, Spinning Toward the Unknown” — Siobhan Burke (review, Weathering, April 2023)