The Encounter: Rockland
The Encounter: Rockland was created in partnership with The Rockland Strand.
A live work of physical theater, this Encounter will feature locally-based performers. It exists within the larger project, The Encounter, which is being created with communities around the world, merging professional, pre-professional, and non-professional performers.
The work is an encounter with oneself , pulling 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.
The Encounter: Rockland
Choreography and Direction by Kimberly Bartosik
Creative Associate Burr Johnson
Photos by Marti Stone and Jim Duggan
The Encounter: Rockland is part of The Strand Theatre’s New Century series. The project is made possible, in part, with grant support from Maine Arts Commission and by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.
Press: The Courier Gazette
This work premiered August 4-5, 2023 in Rockland, ME.
