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Soft Fences

cast of Soft Fences, photo by Kevin Obsatz
cast of Soft Fences, photo by Kevin Obsatz

cast of Soft Fences, photo by Kevin Obsatz



Greg Waletski, Megan Mayer, Angharad Davies, Elliott Durko Lynch, Charles Campbell

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Soft Fences (2012)Soft Fences (working title) will be developed with generous support during a February 2012 residency at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), as part of a pilot partnership with the McKnight Foundation in collaboration with Springboard for the Arts."Orbit, as I understand it, refers to the trajectory of an object around a moon, planet or star. However, I read another description of it as the exquisite balance between gravity and momentum. That definition intrigues me, because it made me think of people in a transitional state where one is neither arriving nor leaving."- Megan Mayer, 2010 McKnight Fellow in Choreography. Through a lens both personal and collective, Mayer will explore the themes of transition, displacement, and isolated experience. While in residence, she will research space travel and the psychological states of astronauts as a concrete example of displacement through extreme journey and re-entry, orbit, and the physical state of “being between gravity & momentum.” She also intends to visit the Kennedy Space Center, interview an astronaut, and utilize these experiences to generate a rich movement vocabulary with her performers / collaborators. An informal showing and dialogue will take place at the end of her residency. As part of the residency, Mayer will work with Film and Video Artist Kevin Obsatz to create video footage that will be incorporated into the performance via projection, and with Sound Designer Elliott Durko Lynch to create an original soundscore. Additional collaborators in residence include Charles Campbell, Angharad Davies and Greg Waletski. Soft Fences will incorporate material from the duet Soft Fences, originally performed with Greg Waletski in early 2011 at the University of Minnesota Barbara Barker Center for Dance, as well as from the trioYaw, performed by Charles Campbell, Angharad Davies and Elliott Durko Lynch at Choreographer's Evening in November 2011 at the Walker Art Center. Soft Fences will be available for touring in 2013.