Mammal, costume and set design, 2010

Synopsis:  The theater is a very specific context into which the outside world leaks. The action of the performance literally begins outside its frame and falls into it. Outside the theater the audience experiences a person, at once pedestrian and animal, moving directly amongst them. Are they one of the audience? Are they other? Individuals experience kinesthetic empathy with her as she dances next to them, they choose to move toward or away from her. As she and the audience enter the theater the other performers embody the social construct of the audience in which they can see their own behavior reflected, which eventually morphs into something far more askew and gently disturbing. After thirty minutes the action eventually escapes from the theaters white box to disappear into the larger world.

Co-choreographers: Otto Ramstad and Olive Bieringa 
Composer: Zeena Parkins 
Lighting designer: Rebecca Makus
Costume and Set Design: Emmett Ramstad
​Dancers: Francesca Mattavelli, Tadayoshi Kokeguchi, Eneka Bordato, Benoit Koc, Harris Gkekas, Maite Cebrian and Aurelie Gaillard of the Lyon Opera Ballet.

Venue:  Les Subsistance, Lyon, France. A work commissioned by the Lyon Opera Ballet in Lyon, France.

For more information please see: http://www.bodycartography.org/