“Vanishing Point” uses the white columns of St. Mark’s Church to stage a funeral... Musings on mortality and heritage, inappropriate revelations, repeated runs smack into the altar
wall, and dance segments that are touching and deep... add up to a vague sense of Faulknerian doom, set to good music."
– The New Yorker
Danspace Project presents Vanishing Point
by Tom Pearson & Zach Morris
collaboratively created and performed with
Donna Ahmadi, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus,
Tara O’Con, and Jennine Willett
Original live music by
Kris Bauman & The Dang-It Bobbys
Costume Design by Karen Young
Lighting Design by Carol Mullins
Production Manager Andrea Dohar
June 26-28, 2008 [Thurs-Sat] at 8:30pm
Admission: $15 (Danspace Members $10)
Reservations: (212) 674-8194
or www.danspaceproject.org
Danspace Project
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
10th Street and 2nd Avenue
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Press Coverage:
"The Tombstones Have It"
(Review, Web Exclusive)
by Roslyn Sulcas
June 30, 2008
(536 KB PDF File), June 30, 2008
Infinite Body Blog
Tom Pearson and Zach Morris: Body & Soul
Interviewed by Eva Yaa Asantewaa
Audio Podcast, June, 2008
(284 KB PDF File) June 26-July 2, 2008
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
As part of the City/Dans series, Danspace Project presents the premiere of
Tom Pearson and Zach Morris’ latest evening-length contemporary dance work. Wickedly funny and suddenly somber, Vanishing Point fuses aggressive, exhaustive movement, meditative nuance, and live music by the
whisky-powered, alt-bluegrass ensemble The Dang-it Bobbys, led by composer Kris Bauman. The work will be presented in
a three night engagement that runs Thursday, June 26th through Saturday, June 28th, 2008. Performances begin at 8:30PM.
Vanishing Point engages St. Mark’s Church both as a sanctuary and an
architectural structure evocative of the columns and porticos of the rural south. Culled from the artists’ collective stories, it represents a confluence of
slipping memories, improbable tales, and faulty recollections--an exploration of family legacies shrouded in secrets, blurred by liquor, or in some cases composed of outright lies. With an absurd measure of sincerity and an equal
dollop of irreverence, the work grapples with both the unraveling and blurring of lines between truth and fabrication—simultaneously self-aware of performing while simultaneously evoking a fictional funeral. Ricocheting backward and forward through time in non-linear, photo album fashion, Vanishing Point shotguns from elusive impression to indelible imprint, skips decades, unearths fragments of a hidden past, and obsessively replays events in an attempt to triangulate meaning from fractured moments, tattered images, and the personal hazes we view them through.
Sample some music from the Dang-It Bobbys at:
www.thedang-itbobbys.com.
Support for this project provided by:
Vanishing Point is made possible, in part, with funds from the 2007-08 Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative with support from the Jerome Foundation and Danspace Project’s Dans/Creation Fund; by an Outer/Space grant, a program of Dance Theater Workshop supported, in part, by JPMorgan Chase and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) and the New York City Council; by the Live Music For Dance Program of the American Music Center (www.amc.net); by Materials for the Arts/DCA and Department of Sanitation; and by Third Rail Projects, with support from private and institutional donors.
