The Encounter (2021-ongoing)
The Encounter is an intergenerational physical-theatre project being developed in NYC and with diverse communities around the world merging professional, pre-professional, and non-professional performers. Current The Encounter projects include locally cast works in Italy, Buffalo, Akron, Rockland (Maine), and NYC
For more info, visit: The Encounter digital portfolio
The Encounter pulls from what we are currently carrying in our bodies–grief, hope, fear, desire, newfound power- and pairs it with our dreams in this moment of reconciliation with time, as we dig our lives out of the pandemics of this age. The burgeoning result is a cross-geographic, global conversation about the ferocious power of the body as a form of communication and the potency of movement as a connective language.
Watch The Encounter (film), about the process of seeding the work, by artist Caroline Haidet:
In NYC, The Encounter was commissioned and presented as part of French Institute/Alliance Francaise's Crossing the Line Festival, featuring performers and designers from NYC and Torn Space Theater in Buffalo. October 6-8, 2022, FIAF's Le Skyroom.
Other 2022 Projects:
The Encounter: Italia, supported by Jacob's Pillow in collaboration with American Dance Abroad as a part of WomanMade, a project of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Touring in Europe Summer-Fall 2022
Coming soon in 2023:
The Encounter: Rockland & The Encounter: Akron
Crossing the Line performances of The Encounter are made possible, in part, through FIAF’s commissioning funds; generous grants from NYS DanceForce and the Nathan M. Clark Foundation; Virginia B. Toulmin Fellowship for Women Leaders in Dance at the Center for Ballet and the Arts @ NYU; creative development residencies at Tremper Arts; a generative partnership and residency with Torn Space Theater (Buffalo); and individual donations from John Robinson and other patrons