Undercurrents & Exchange
and The Drifting Encyclopedia (2010),
Undercurrents & Exchange is a rumination on the conundrum of love, infatuation and connection in modern America, manifested in a series of lunch-hour performances. The Drifting Encyclopedia is an assemblage of American oddities, scientific and historical ephemera, questionable accounts and implausible representations thereof. World Financial Center, New York City. Summer 2010!

The One You Love Is Sick (2010),
Created by Tom Pearson and Zach Morris, with Aedas My Footsteps workshop participants.

Hong Kong 2010.


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Steampunk Haunted House (2009),
Enter an immersive world of churning gears, mechanical monstrosities, and steam-powered cyborgs in NYC's newest haunted house. Created by contemporary performance and installation artists, the Steampunk Haunted House sprawls throughout the Abrons Arts Center's century-old Playhouse for a terrifying, visually stunning experience. Created by Zach Morris with Elizabeth Carena, Jesse Green, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Liz Sargent, Brigid C. Scruggs, Barry Weil, Kryssy Wright, and Abrons' Urban Youth Theater.

Undercurrents & Exchange (2009),
by Zach Morris and Tom Pearson, is a month-long offering to the employees, workers, and visitors of the World Financial Center. For all of February, artists will present a new dance every workday during the lunch hour, unearthing the hidden, interpersonal undercurrents of our daily routines. Each short dance will be a world unto itself but also accumulate meaning over the course of the month as the performances reveal the often veiled but perpetually possible connections within the transitional spaces of the Winter Garden.

Vanishing Point (2008)
by Tom Pearson and Zach Morris, presented by Danspace Project, is as a site-specific work for St. Marks Church with music by Kris Bauman and his whisky powered alt-bluegrass band The Dang-It Bobbys. Vanishing Point is an exploration of family legacies that have been shrouded in secrets, blurred by liquor, or–in some cases–composed of outright lies. A confluence of slipping memories, improbable tales, and faulty recollections, the work lives in the blurry spaces between truth and fabrication.

Strangers on Tong Chong Street (2007)
by Tom Pearson and Zach Morris, is a site-specific dance work for TaiKoo Place in Hong Kong. Part of the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation's SWIRE Island East Urban Dance Festival, the work explores what it means for a group of outsiders to descend upon a site and gradually affix themselves to its geography. Through frequently poignant and often humorous moments of group locomotion and ritualized urban routines, it draws a connection between the changing, dynamic, mercantile, and maritime aspects of NYC and Hong Kong.

Rub the Sleep (2007)
by Zach Morris and Tom Pearson, is a dream about waking up. In a hallucinatory landscape of hope chests, merit badges and tupperware, the perfect housewife purees a cocktail of gin and a homecoming queen's corsage; a Japanese war-bride addresses the Junior League; and an erotically aggressive series of collisions sends two men stumbling. Rub the Sleep is an irreverent, rambunctious, limping sleepwalk that traverses the space between polished societal veneers and the unraveling, sometimes sullied, realities that tread below the surface.