SOUL LEAVES HER BODY [2010]
Co-Created with Jennie MaryTai Liu.
Visit the project homepage at www.soulleavesherbody.com
SOUL LEAVES HER BODY is an integrated-media performance synthesizing theater, dance, live video, music, and cinema. Inspired by a thirteenth-century Chinese story about a young woman who rips her soul from her body to pursue her destiny in the city, this original, contemporary work explores the soul-body relationship in todayÕs networked, electronic culture. An inter-disciplinary team of international artists create a multi-channel film live onstage, mixing pre-recorded images with a multitude of onstage cameras. Lush cinematic visuals appear on ghostly panels, reshaping and obscuring the glass stage. Outside the cameras' frame we are drawn into an integrated folk dance for modern life.
SOUL LEAVES HER BODY premiered at HERE Arts Center November 5-23, 2010 and will continue touring internationally through 2013.
SOUL LEAVES HER BODY was made possible the HERE Artist-in-Residency Program (HARP), with lead residency support from the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a 2010 Multi-Arts Production Fund (MAP) Grant, a NYSCA 2010 Individual Artist Grant, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, a development residency at the Corporation of Yaddo, a grant from The Experimental Television Center, and by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space program, which was created with lead support from the September 11th Fund. Project space is donated by Capstone Equities.