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Ad astra per aspera
In response to city, county, and state guidelines we are cancelling this performance. New performance dates will be determined when the significant health risks of attending large social events have subsided. Thank you for your interest and understanding.
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In this new evening-length duet, Co-artistic Director Christin Call performs with Coriolis newcomer Dustin Durham in a surreal memoir of one womans journey through the divine darkness of erotic liberation. A meditative romp of roleplay and consensual power dynamics, the exuberant neon of the city and boundless depths of the ocean landscape at night create a limitless arena for a couple to discover and explore their desires.
However, part of her journey must toggle the landscape of the past as well as the present. Ad astra per aspera is titled after the motto of Calls home state of Kansas and means to the stars through difficulties. In reverse reflection of the ocean and city landscape is a penetrating look at growing up on the sun-seared, small-town plains of the Midwest. She must confront how the persistent myth of the Wild West was hardening and rapidly transforming into religious fundamentalism in the 90s. Vulnerable memories reveal where shame induced suppression, provoked purity codes, and reinforced gender norms.
Call employs her assemblage style, layering mixed media for a full-sensory experience, to tell this story through film, poetic dialogue, animal masks, aerial suspension, and contemporary ballet. She is joined by musical collaborator Michael Hamm, who has created a vivid original score, and Hungarian artist Zoltan Katonas stunning and evocative film photography.
Stylishly woven together with stark imagery and bold details, Ad astra examines our nations geographical, moralistic divide from a viewpoint of having lived on both sides. Her awakening into an oceanic self-possession of her own beliefs and desires is an inexhaustible process of integration that, in the words of Philosopher/Cognitive Scientist John Vervaeke, feels like making love to reality.
Conceived, written, and directed by Christin Call
Original Score by Michael Hamm
Set Design and Build by Ryan Hatfield
Lighting Design by Amber Rose Parker
Director of Photography Zoltan Katona
Costuming by Katharine Andrews and Christin Call
Masks/Make-up Consulting by Shelby Adele Richardson
Live Performances by Christin Call, Dustin Durham, Michael Hamm
Film Performances Vanessa DeWolf, Madeline Gregor, Evalynn West
Rehearsal Assistants/Dramaturges Natascha Greenwalt, Madeline Gregor
Trigger Warning: Please note that this work explores mature material and some viewers may find the sexual depictions of dominance and submission to be triggering. Please make necessary precautions for your well-being.
Project support
Ad astra per aspera is supported, in part, by a Sustained Support award from 4Culture. Development of this work provided by the inaugural Propeller Residency at Yaw Theater.
Business Sponsors:
Alaska Airlines
The Boeing Company
Cornish College of the Arts
Seattle Ortho Arts Physical Therapy
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LocationErickson Theater (View)
1524 Harvard Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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