Event

VIM VIGOR's SEPARATI

SEPARATI enters the turbid psychic space of highway travel and anonymous companionship. Caught up at a midway point, five characters travel through the past, present and dark hallucinatory projections of the future. Stilled periods of waiting juxtapose wild physical bouts of surreal movement, as reality gives way to the imagination. What is the distance between where we have come from and where we want to go? Between what happens to us and who we are? Can the space between bodies and ideas ever be joined? And if not, can we exist in the middle ground of separation?

concept and direction: Shannon Gillen
choreography: Shannon Gillen in collaboration with VIM VIGOR
rehearsal directors: Martin Durov and Laja Field
performance: Jason Cianciulli, Rebecca Diab, Martin Durov, Laja Field, Emma Whiteley
lighting design: Barbara Samuels
music design: original scores by Martin Durov in collaboration with Shannon Gillen
costumes: Joey Blaha
set design: JC Machine and Tool Company

SEPARATI premiered in NYC in 2016 and was co-commissioned by New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensembles AiR® 2015 Program and SUNY Purchase College. The work later toured to the Prisma Festival in Panama.