The New York based choreographer Stefanie Nelson employs a similar rhythmic progression as the main structural axis of her piece. Reminiscent of the way through which the language is acquired and then retrogrades through aging, she translates her experience with a family member’s dementia into an intricately layered multidisciplinary piece.
Increasingly organized phrases peak and subsequently dissolve into disorientation – a visual metaphor for memory loss. Nelson makes ample use of apple imagery as a loaded cultural reference evoking the loss of beauty and/or innocence, passage of time, gravity, and decay.
The special advisor for the project is David Shenk, a bestselling author of The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic.
Age Guidance: 13
Show Notes: No Intermission
Performance Schedule:
THURSDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 3 PM
Music
Jonah Kreitner & Sahand Rahbar
Choreography
Stefanie Nelson