Solar

Premiere: March 17, 2023

DeSales University, Center Valley, PA

Costumes: Rebecca R. Callan

Lighting: Eric T. Haugen

Performers: Jasmine Bright, Brenna Johnson, Faith Marie Pelli, Sade Reid, Shannon Sakaitis, Rylee Sandrowicz, Gabrielle Snyder, Emily Streichenwein

Synopsis: Solar is inspired by five of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies cards selected at random. Taken together, the cards elicit images of seeking out missing pieces and discarding forgotten elements. Consider: Overtly resist change | Disconnect from desire | Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them | The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten | Is there something missing? The dancers embody individual bits and pieces of a collective, and explore changing elements of group dynamics in which the behavior of one affects the whole.

Photos by Jacob Metzger