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Falling Up
CultureSurge - Dance! Dance! Dance!
Written by Celeste Fraser Delgado
Saturday, 07 October 2006
Veil. Rope. Recurring image. “Falling Up,” a performance presented by the Miami-based artist collective
Inkub8, has the haunting simplicity of a dream. Lying on his back, a middle-age man rappels along a rope
stretched across the perimeter of the stage. A small mechanical device like a projector or a fan skitters
behind him on a low platform. When he disappears, a younger woman, clad only in a white t-shirt and
underwear, retraces his path on foot. A sheer white curtain separates the audience from the action, like
the haze of memory.
Choreographer and dancer Heather Maloney, working with set and video designer Vivian Marthell, relies
on the simplest of elements to convey the lasting impact of sexual abuse on survivors.
When Maloney enters, she is tethered to the doorway by a rope that constantly snaps her backwards.
Later she signals the layers of trauma as she removes pair after pair of the underwear, laying each panty
on the stage in a straight line. The creepy gaze of the child molester is represented by a Polaroid camera,
wielded by dancer John Beauregard when he returns to the stage in a wheel chair. The chair is
particularly effective here, as the man’s character glides back and forth through the woman’s recollections.
On the spare set, Gary Lund’s lighting registers as proof of the epigraph
projected on the back wall that the memory of sexual abuse “hovers over all
experience.” A sinister spotlight becomes a third character, manipulated by
the pederast dance instructor to seduce the little girl, now prancing in tutu and
toe shoes. When Maloney’s little girl peers into the spot, bringing her grinning
face just inches from the hot bulb, she conveys the hunger for approval that
leaves children so vulnerable to the treachery of adults. When the girl finishes
her solo, the sound of the man applauding her alone is as ominous as the
revving of a chainsaw in a horror film.
Falling Up
8:30 pm
Saturday, October 7
Florida International University
VH-100 Black Box Theater
11120 SW 8 Street
Tickets cost $15
Call 305-807-7304
www.inkub8.org
Click Here for selected Video Clips
To request an electronic version of the press packet or photos from press please email us at
admin@inkub8.org
Falling Up
CultureSurge - Dance! Dance! Dance!
Written by Celeste Fraser Delgado
Saturday, 07 October 2006
Veil. Rope. Recurring image. “Falling Up,” a performance presented by the Miami-based artist collective
Inkub8, has the haunting simplicity of a dream. Lying on his back, a middle-age man rappels along a rope
stretched across the perimeter of the stage. A small mechanical device like a projector or a fan skitters
behind him on a low platform. When he disappears, a younger woman, clad only in a white t-shirt and
underwear, retraces his path on foot. A sheer white curtain separates the audience from the action, like
the haze of memory.
Choreographer and dancer Heather Maloney, working with set and video designer Vivian Marthell, relies
on the simplest of elements to convey the lasting impact of sexual abuse on survivors.
When Maloney enters, she is tethered to the doorway by a rope that constantly snaps her backwards.
Later she signals the layers of trauma as she removes pair after pair of the underwear, laying each panty
on the stage in a straight line. The creepy gaze of the child molester is represented by a Polaroid camera,
wielded by dancer John Beauregard when he returns to the stage in a wheel chair. The chair is
particularly effective here, as the man’s character glides back and forth through the woman’s recollections.
On the spare set, Gary Lund’s lighting registers as proof of the epigraph
projected on the back wall that the memory of sexual abuse “hovers over all
experience.” A sinister spotlight becomes a third character, manipulated by
the pederast dance instructor to seduce the little girl, now prancing in tutu and
toe shoes. When Maloney’s little girl peers into the spot, bringing her grinning
face just inches from the hot bulb, she conveys the hunger for approval that
leaves children so vulnerable to the treachery of adults. When the girl finishes
her solo, the sound of the man applauding her alone is as ominous as the
revving of a chainsaw in a horror film.
Falling Up
8:30 pm
Saturday, October 7
Florida International University
VH-100 Black Box Theater
11120 SW 8 Street
Tickets cost $15
Call 305-807-7304
www.inkub8.org
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