For Scylla is an evening-length ensemble work created collaboratively with five performers: Natalie Border, Jonathan Kim, Tara McArthur, Morgan Phillips, and Melissa Younker. The 55-minute work premiered in REDUCER, the first production by The Woods Dance Project, June 2024 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The work featured a powerful moving light that transformed the performance space throughout, creating a sense of architecture that amplified the arc of the work.
For Scylla questions authenticity, in both private and public spaces, and it says YES—over and over again—allowing desire to drive the reality of the work.
As the piece evolved, a sensuous, cautious, brave, animal energy emerged from the group. I enjoyed how the dancers changed characters but still offered the same images of hero and creature, challenge and loss, individual and whole. -Kara Komarnitsky for loveDANCEmore, 2024
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