Kingdom (2024)
Premiered at Danspace Project 2024Choreography: 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
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.
Press:
Everything and Nothing
Nora Raine Thompson. Danspace Journal 2025
Jade Manns + Glenn Potter-Takata: A Shared Evening
Mia Shaffer. Culture Bot, January 2025
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.