HOW TO FALL APART
An AMOC* Production
co-presented with Monday Evening Concerts
June 4-5, 2024
Los Angeles Dance Project, Los Angeles
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Composed by CAROLYN CHEN
JULIA EICHTEN, dancer
KEIR GOGWILT, violinist
COLEMAN ITZKOFF, cellist
IOANNIS LOGOTHETIS*, dancer
MATILDA SAKAMOTO*, dancer
ANNA DROZDOWSKI*, Producer
JULIA EICHTEN, Movement Direction
MARY ELLEN STEBBINS*, Lighting Design
VICTORIA BEK*, Costume Design
CHRISTOPHER GILMORE*, Production Technical Supervisor
Our first collaboration with Carolyn Chen, How to Fall Apart describes cosmic, natural, and human processes of disintegration, aging, and falling apart. This evening-length work for three dancers, one violinist, and one cellist integrates text, gesture, and music, building upon Chen’s long-standing compositional work “in which sensuality and abstraction find common ground” (LA Times). How to Fall Apart unfolds as various assemblages of sound, movement, and storytelling cohere, dissolve, and reform, telling personal and scientific stories about the climate crisis, cosmological history, the erosion of soil in Northern Chad, the aging body, The Billion Oyster Project in New York, and the operations of microbes.
