HAUNTS - 2022-2023

HAUNTS is a highly visual and kinesthetic performance installation that weaves together the grief narratives of multidisciplinary artists to create processes for remembering, memorializing, healing, and visioning the new after loss. This audience-engaged performance work follows dancers (Jennifer Dignan, Steph McIssac, Amy Wasielewski, and Hannah Wasielewski-choreographer) as they move grief in its many forms through an everchanging set shaped by multimedia and projection (Sangeeth Kumar), sound (Kayla Fong), and dance film (Amy Wasielewski). Using choreography layered with AI-generated tools and technologies, reality softens into moving images that tell the stories of transformation from the ghostly past to future new worlds where imagination awakens through a dream-like state. With the performance as the collaborative center, HAUNTS is a landscape of space, sound, and dance that walks us through the transformation that’s only possible when our stories of loss are held collectively.

Shown at Subcircle dollop- January 2023- Biddeford, ME
Kinetech Arts Dance Hack- September 2023- Oakland, CA
Meeting House Arts- October 2023- Freeport, ME

Funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts and Subcircle

Photography by Robbie Sweeny, Image Stills from Videography by Jorge Cousineau