voyager

voyager borrows its title from the interstellar program that sent two small ships into space. The spacecrafts’ task was to document what they pass on their way to nowhere in particular, charting and accumulating experience without predetermined design. Theoretically, they could keep going forever. This non-stop archiving of a constantly shifting position inspires the central task of this performance. Here, the performers work on continuous and non-repeating movement. The dancers and musician Jennifer Castle are trying not to stop nor go back on themselves, in their own medium, side by side. While the performance is meant to last approximately one hour, we find it helpful to imagine this mission in infinite duration. Ongoingness undoes our first attempts to create meaning, allowing for surprise,  boredom, recalibration and wonder to arise. It is through movement that we are revisiting and repurposing our histories. We’re travelling without knowing what we’ll will find, sure only of moving forward.