And lose the name of action (2012)

And lose the name of action will be a new evening length piece for six award winning performers – Michelle Boulé, Hilary Clark, Luke George, Miguel Gutierrez, K.J. Holmes and Ishmael Houston-Jones. Other collaborators will be Bessie award winners Neal Medlyn, sound designer, and Lenore Doxsee, lighting designer. Also involved is first time collaborator Boru O’Brien O’Connell, video artist. The piece is the result of three years of research into the various conceptions of mind/body in the fields of neurology, philosophy, somatic practice, improvisation and the paranormal.

World Premiere, September 2012, Walker Art Center
New York Premiere, December 2012, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival

Lead commissioning and developmental support for And lose the name of action has been provided by Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Maggie Allesee National Choreographic Center at Florida State University in Tallahassee and Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. Additional project support was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Dorris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust; The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. And lose the name of action has been supported by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council through a residency at Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island.

background photo, The Medium Eva C. With a Materialization on Her Head and a Luminous Apparition Between Her Hands, 1912 by Albert von Schrenck Notzing