Thank You For Coming: Attendance
2014
“Possibly the most fun dance experience of my life.” —Chicago Tribune
Thank You For Coming is a series of works created between 2012 and 2020 which summons the unnamed forces that surge between the viewer and the viewed.
In Thank You For Coming: Attendance, the premiere iteration, performers pass through ever-morphing states of physical entanglement and scenes of distorted familiarity, building new bodies, new stories, and new ways of being around a constantly constructed and re-imagined group experience. Intimately staged in the round, Driscoll crafts a heightened reality of observation, invitation and interdependence. As audience and performers increasingly find themselves becoming one, a beautiful and chaotic shared identity emerges, culminating in a dynamic ritual of action and transformation.
Thank You For Coming: Attendance premiered in March 2014 at Danspace Project.
CREDITS
Originally Performed By: Giulia Carotenuto, Sean Donovan, Alicia Ohs, Brandon Washington & Nikki Zialcita
Additionally Performed By: Toni Melaas and Paul Singh
Visual Design: Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin
Lighting Design: Amanda K. Ringger
Sound Design and Original Composition: Michael Kiley
Artistic Advisor: Jesse Zaritt
Choreographic Assistant: Nadia Tykulsker
Stage Manager: Alessandra Calabi
PRESENTATIONS
Jul 5–9, 2017: Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (Becket, MA)
Nov 28–29, 2016: Made in USA Festival, Onassis Cultural Center (Athens, Greece)
Oct 27–28, 2016: Belfast International Arts Festival, The MAC (Belfast, Ireland)
Oct 7–10, 2016: Melbourne Festival, Arts House (Melbourne, Australia)
Apr 28–May 1, 2016: Fisher Center at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)
Apr 14–17, 2016: Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH)
Feb 17–21, 2016: Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN)
Feb 11–14, 2016: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Nov 21–Dec 7, 2015: Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia) & Theatre de Gennevilliers (Paris, France)
Nov 9–15: Patricelli ’92 Theater (Wesleyan University, Connecticut)
Oct 30: Centro Cultural Le Parc (Mendoza, Argentina)
Oct 25–26: Centro de Arte Experimental UNSAM (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Oct 6–11: The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (Boston, MA)
May 9, 2015: Excerpt at LMCC’s Paths to Pier 42 Spring Celebration (New York, NY)
Jan 6–10, 2015: COIL Festival 2015 at Danspace Project (New York, NY)
Jul 10–12, 2014: Mass Live Arts (Great Barrington, MA)
Mar 6–15, 2014: Danspace Project (New York, NY) – World Premiere
COMMISSIONING & SUPPORT
Thank You For Coming: Attendance was made possible in part by the Danspace Project 2013–14 Commissioning Initiative, with support from the generous individuals who give to the Creation Fund, and is supported, in part, by The Jerome Foundation, 92Y New Works in Dance Fund, and a Headlands Alumni New Works Award, and with the assistance of New York State Council on the Arts, and is made possible through the sponsorship of The Field. Thank You For Coming was co-commissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Residency support provided by Park Avenue Armory and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Extended Life Dance Development program with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Thank You for Coming: Attendance is a project of Creative Capital.