to create a world
World Premiere | The Joyce Theater, 2019
Drawn from research created for Miller’s residency at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, To Create a World harnesses the uncompromising virtuosity and raw vulnerability of the dancers in a provocative study of the human body and its instinct to survive.
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“Rangy and angular, can reveal the soulful, strange side of sorrow”
“Textural and psychological, a multilayered exploration of the body’s instinct to survive”
“Spiritual and superbly human”
SURFACE BLOOD
From the poetry collection To create a world
You should judge the animal objectively. Omit sleeping hours. Forget how many pounds of red meat and carbohydrates it consumes.
Mating numbers can indicate voracity or appeasement. The organs length and flexibility are shortcomings that do not admit reasoning.
It is essential to judge the animal with objectivity. Without blinking, without mumbling.
Look at the animal straight into its eyes and spare no injury.
Keep quiet. Keep prudent distance.
Written by JuanFe Rengifo Borrero (New Orleans Review / 2013)
Run time:
60 Minutes
Dancers:
7
Commissioning Credits:
To Create a World has been made possible by co-commissioning support from Jody and John Arnhold, a commissioning grant from the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, and additional funding from the Harkness Foundation for Dance.
Choreography:
Andrea Miller, in collaboration with the GALLIM dancers
Lighting Design:
Burke Brown
Original Score and Sound Design:
Will Epstein
Costume Design:
Jose Solis, in collaboration with Andrea Miller
To Create a World. Video by Ben Stamper. Photos by Justin Chao and Alexander Katan-Schmid. Graphic design by Liliana Dirks-Goodman.