Faye Driscoll:
Thank You For Coming: Space
2019
“An exhilaratingly personal culmination of the series.” —Artforum
Through an alchemy of bodies and voices, objects and live sound, choreographer Faye Driscoll’s celebrated Thank You For Coming series conjures worlds that are, like ourselves, alive and forever changeable.
Thank You For Coming: Space is a shared rite of passage—an invocation of the transformative powers of presence, and of absence. Space unfolds within an intimate installation, wired for sound and upheld by pulleys, ropes, and the weight of others, where Driscoll appears alone with the audience. Through an alchemy of body, object, voice and live sound, she builds a moving requiem for the human body and conjures a world that is, like ourselves, alive and forever changeable. Space invites us to collectively confront life’s final flourishing, and tethers us to our potential for both the grotesque and the sublime.
Thank You for Coming: Space premiered April 2019 at The Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University, New Jersey.
Thank You For Coming: Space
(2019)
CREDITS
Conceived, Created and Performed by Faye Driscoll
Visual Design by Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin
Lighting Design by Amanda K. Ringger
Sound Design by Andrew Gilbert
Songs and Sounds by Faye Driscoll
Artistic Advisors Jesse Zaritt and Sacha Yanow
Text Advisor Amanda Davidson
Additional Advisor Dages Juvelier Keates
Production Manager: Devin Cameron
Sound Engineer: Zachary Crumrine
Company/Tour Manager: Samantha Mohr
Producer and Management: George Lugg
PRESENTATIONS
April 2023: Festival Dias da Dança (Porto, Portugal)
January 19- 22, 2023: On the Boards (Seattle, WA)
September 15–17, 2022: Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
August 24–27, 2022: Tanz Im August, Sophiensæle (Berlin, Germany)
July 1–4, 2021: COVID adapted version, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, Belgium)
April 16–19, 2020: postponed due to COVID, Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH)
March 5–8, 2020: Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN)
January 8–11, 2020: New York Live Arts (New York, NY)
November 21–24, 2019: Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston (Boston, MA)
April 2–14, 2019: World Premiere at Montclair State University (Montclair, NJ)
COMMISSIONING & SUPPORT
Thank You for Coming: Space was commissioned by Peak Performances as part of the Performing Arts Research Lab (PeARL) at Montclair State University; and co-commissioned by Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University through the Wexner Center Residency Award Program; and Walker Art Center with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund.
The work was made possible with generous support from the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Program and the Jerome Foundation, and developed with residency support from Camargo Foundation, the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow and the Rauschenberg Foundation.
Thank You For Coming: Space was co-produced by Peak Performances at Montclair State University (New Jersey), and had its world premiere at The Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University.
Thank You for Coming: Space is a project of Creative Capital.