Walls and Mazes

Walls and Mazes
Walls and Mazes was a continuation of the piece Open Wounds that premiered in the 2024 Fall Dance Concert by the same choreographer. As a lighting designer, this was the first time I worked on a continuation of a piece. It was an exciting exercise to light a piece that lived in a universe of existing visual vocabulary, which I reused and reinvented to make it feel like a seamless continuation and clear nod to the earlier piece.
The choreographer wrote about this piece, "this collaborative work was created in response to current national and global events and is a sequel to the choreographer’s Fall 2024 work, Open Wounds. Through dialogue, improvisation, and collective movement generation, Walls and Mazes explores the power of art and creativity to find grounding in tumultuous times. Dance is not a metaphor for change but rather a call to action and tool for regaining agency in the face of chaos, uncertainty, and oppression. How are you moving through this contemporary moment?"

Choreography: Audrey Baran in collaboration with the performers

Lighting Designer: Dallas J. Cook

Costume Designer: Shevare Perry

Costume Coordinator: Rachel Engstrom

Performers: Christian Bryant, Mikaela Burney, Jasmine Forner, Francie Foster, Abbi Gray, Alexis Holloway, Nia Huell-Griffin, Joseph-Inés Jones, Niya Kerr, Izzy Mcgaha, Abbey Murphy, Courtney Stanley, Ella Zuchowski

Music: Son Lux