A work created in collaboration with Ginger Wagg, Façade took audiences on an ‘alternate tour’ through the Warehouse's upper-floors in the downtown DC during the last weekend of September and early October 2006. Recreating the site through live and mediated experiences, it incorporated dance, projected video images, and sound. This multimedia dance-theater work redirected perspective, scale, and proximity to frame and draw attention to our increasingly mediated experience of a constantly evolving urban environment. To create the performed event we collaborated with Michael Wichita (video images) and Tristana Fiscella and Rebecca Mills of The Caution Curves (original sound).
Taking as its impulse the recent redevelopment of the area, this interactive work inquired about our contemporary experience of urban renewal with the uneven building, rebuilding and recreation that typifies gentrification. With slow shifts and redevelopment of sites, lots and neighborhoods over time to make way for new businesses and residencies, we are often unable to remember or identify what stood in these places before.
Façade was made possible through the support of the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities.
images by Michael Wichita
