again (2016)
Can a gesture ever be performed the same way twice? Does a memory change every time you recount it?
again considers our relationship to time – how choreography might be a series of ‘loops’ remembering what happened before and yet, done new every time. As a piece, it takes its starting point with the relationship between documentation and improvisation and the interplay between the two -- how documents become stand-ins for memory and how memory might live through the body and change each moment as we improvise through day-to-day life.
again (quartet) was created in collaboration with fellow performers Elise Cowin and Nora Sharp
and with a live score by Mitsu Salmon
directed by Jane Jerardi
again was initially developed at Links Hall through its LinkUp Artist Residency program.
a later solo version of the work, again (again), was created and performed by Jane Jerardi
developed through the SummerSpace residency with Art Intercepts at the Menomonee Club for Boys & Girls
from Links Hall, Chicago, IL
LinkUp showing, March 27, 2016
performance with text, video projection, live sound concept/direction/design: Jane Jerardi; created in collaboration with Elise Cowin, Mitsu Salmon and Nora Sharp
original score: Mitsu Salmon
video projection design: Jane Jerardi, additional camera: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh; projection design programming support: Christine Shallenberg
lighting design: Giau Truong
performers: Elise Cowin, Jane Jerardi, Mitsu Salmon and Nora Sharp
documentation videography: Jovan Landry and Curtis Matzke, editing: Jane Jerardi
developed through the support of Links Hall and its LinkUp residency program and generous individual donors