Sightline
Collaboration with contemporary dance company The Seldoms and Founding Artistic Director Carrie Hanson.
Sightline, is a return and expansion of their 2017 project, The Making.
In Sightline, six dancers encircle, entangle, and skirt one another, fleeting in and out of view as they move through clusters of suspended ceiling-to-floor textile columns. The figures themselves, along with the figuration in Taylor's set and the geometric garments from his HAXTON Studio, create a dynamic, dense terrain of marks and exchanges.
Carrie Hanson
Set to music by Baroque composer Marin Marais, this dance plays between 17th c. music and 21st c. design, and between cloaking and baring self. With the combination of complex melodies, Taylor’s modern marks and shapes, and the dancers’ variously lush and angular motion, the work is intended to feel like a full conversation. Sightline mirrors the fullness, the poignant and the banal, the exchanges of everyday life. In designing these various scenes and these experiences of concealment, distance, and surprise for the viewer, intended to draw attention to how we see and comprehend others in the world, when our view of them is usually a limited one.
Sightline is ultimately about bringing imagination and compassion to complete our perception of people, and inspiring empathy for others whose full story we cannot see.
Carrie Hanson
