Your Story Was This is a performance installation inspired by three short poems by Jane Hirshfield. This premiere continues choreographer Liss Fain's yearlong exploration of themes of perception, human relationships and loss. The piece also represents Fain's latest experiment in partitioning space and altering the traditional relationship between audience and dancer. Collaborators on the piece include set and lighting designer Matthew Antaky, composer Dan Wool, costume designer Mary Domenico and production manager Frederic Boulay.
As a poet, translator and essayist, Hirshfield has earned numerous honors, including election as chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She has been described as "one of the finest, most memorable contemporary poets," (David Baker) her poems praised for their "sensuously philosophical art that imposes a pause in our fast-forward habits of mind" (Rosanna Warren). For Your Story Was This, composer Wool will overlay a recording of Hirshfield's poems performed by the actor Val Sinckler with an electronic score commissioned for the work.
For more than four years Fain has rigorously mined the format of immersive installation. In April this year she premiered a shared installation, titled A Space Divided, with choreographers Amy Seiwert and Christian Burns. Other recent work includes The Imperfect is Our Paradise (2014) and After the Light (2014), described as "intelligent" and "wondrous" (San Francisco Bay Guardian).
Liss Fain company dancers performing in Your Story Was This include Aidan DeYoung, Katharine Hawthorne, Megan Kurashige and Shannon Kurashige.
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