Kingdom (2024)

Premiered at Danspace Project 2024

Choreography: Jade Manns
Dancers: Noa Rui-Piin Weiss, Kalliope Piersol,
Owen Prum, Isa Spector, Zo Williams
Composer: Derek Baron
Costume designer: Kate Williams
Lighting Designer: Ben Demarest

Support: This project was made possible, in part, through support from Danspace Project, The NYU Production Lab Artist Development Program for Dance, Kino Saito Art Center and an FCA Emergency Grant.

Kingdom, is a dense panorama of images and sounds which rapidly shift and rearrange. Drawing from a two dimensional archive of man’s representation of of nature, which ranges from the animal-centric prehistoric Chauvet cave paintings to National Geographic photography and Natural History Museum dioramas, the choreography moves through a concentrated assemblage of animalistic forms punctuated by the momentary intrusions of a half-human observer. Together with collaborators Kalliope Piersol, Owen Prum, Noa Rui-Piin Weiss, Isa Spector and Zo Williams and Derek Baron, the work conjures a vision of complicated entanglements of artificiality, power and spirit within a 21st century landscape.