Liss Fain Dance and Z Space: Open Time
Liss Fain Dance artist Isabel Rosenstock
Photo by: Robbie Sweeney
Open Time is structured as a series of distinct and connected solos and small groups for four dancers and an actor. Four differently sized rooms frame the movement and are separated by passageways the audience and performers cross through. The audience, moving at will on the periphery and between the rooms, sees the work from different perspectives. The text, spoken live and as voiceover in the score, is from an interview with poet Louise Gluck. The architecture of the installation and the variety of perspectives this creates for the audience is pivotal to the experience of these works, which are created in an intensely collaborative process with designers, composers, actors, and dancers.