begun in 2001, is a response to the technological boom, it’s over-stimulating streams of information and the resulting paranoia
Black and white vinyl-clad dancers circle, appear to multiply, cower under their own blown-up images, to finally coalesce into a multi-limbed mutant in a ploy to scare off the incessant media madness. The title, formatted like a computer password, alludes to our attempts at ownership and privacy. For six dancers, a roving video camera, live-feed projection, and an E. Coli movie by biophysicist Michael Elowitz.
Dancers
2004 video: Abigail Block, Toby Billowitz, Megan Boyd, Melissa Guerrero, Rachel Lehrer, Philippa Kaye
Original prod: Abigail Block, Rachel Lehrer, Philippa Kaye, Lauren Kelly, Aaron Mattocks, Missy Pfohl Smith, Ryan Takemiya
Music
collage by Philippa Kaye with technical assistance from Kristofer Widholm, Samples include Steve Reich’s “It’s Gona Rain”, various Morton Subotnick pieces, Henry Purcell’s “Lead me to Some Peaceful Gloom,” Sergei Prokovfiev’s “Waltz Suite: Opus 110,” Apple Computer System Sounds, Photek, Alternative 3 soundtrack
Costumes
Philippa Kaye
Lighting
Sonya Madeiros
E. Coli movie
Michael Elowitz
Premiere
Sarah Lawrence College, 2002
Abigail Block, Toby Billowitz, Megan Boyd
at Williamsburg Art neXus (no longer in existence), 2004
Video
Charles Dennis