Flight Risk
Premiere: March 17, 2017
DeSales University, Center Valley, PA
Costumes: Samantha Southard
Lighting: Kenny Parkinson
Performers: Maria Davis, Gina Emering, Lindsey Mitchell
Program Note: “This is Major Tom to Ground Control…”
Synopsis: In Flight Risk, a trio of astronauts investigates the physical and psychological effects of living in a zero-gravity environment. Crew members experience hallucinations, separation anxiety, sleep deprivation, and an urge to destroy the ship and the rest of the crew during long voyages into the cold and mysterious darkness. As the dancers navigate the dangerous cosmos through twisting, contorted movement and flight-inspired partnering, we have to wonder if they’ll make it back to Earth in one piece.
Photos by Marla Wolfinger