From A Distant Past Jericho 2-11-24.mp4
From a Distant Past is a re-working of “Morning Afternoon Evening,” created for 2023/24. This performance piece consists of recorded text from Kyra Jucoyv’s poem, spoken by actor Tzena Nicole over background music, dance, and projected imagery. In this intimate iteration, including 5 dancers, the viewers are the protagonist, given a voice by the words of the actor and a body through the movement of the dancers, who also portray her companions. The work, which depicts a journey following a river, has rich and varied dynamics and includes beautiful and eerie depictions of nature through words, movement, costumes, and imagery. It encompasses timeless and timely themes of destruction leading to creation, darkness to light, endings to beginnings. Included in is Isadora Duncan repertory in Grecian tunics, which adds to the mythic overtones expressed through movement, tableaux, and lighting. These overtones reinforce the theme of cycles: of individuals, humanity, eras, universes-from the eternal past, and perhaps on into the eternal future. This timeless work continuously seems to transform in meaning as times change and as the world takes on new challenges.
From A Distant Past Jericho 2-11-24.mp4
