construction (2019)

Choreographer & Director Susan Marshall
Music Sō Percussion
Assistant Choreographer Luke Miller
Sound Nelson Dorado
Lighting Design Eric Southern
Costume Design Mary Kokie McNaugher
Performers Christopher Adams, Eric Cha-Beach, Kristin Clotfelter, Luke Miller, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting

Premiere La Mama Downstairs, New York, June 13, 2019
APAP Showing New York Live Arts, January 2018

Construction is a collaboration between Susan Marshall & Company and Sō Percussion. In it, music and dance are two separate systems that coexist in a symbiotic and, at times, conflicted relationship. The four percussionists' instruments are unconventionally employed microphones and amplifiers that play according to a shifting visual score that determines both the music and the musicians' trajectories through space. Three dancers, driven by a different set of choreographic rules, vie for space with the musicians.

The development of Construction was supported by Fan Fox & Leslie R Samuels Foundation; Harkness Foundation for Dance; Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation; Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; New Music USA; New York State Council on the Arts; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; Peter & Helen Haje Foundation; and Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts.