HOW TO FALL APART

An AMOC* Production

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

Developed at Baryshnikov Arts Center and The Lumberyard

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.

Special thanks to Or Schraiber and Jay Campbell for contributing to early workshops of the piece, as well as to Justin Decatur, Suzanne Thorpe, George Gwilt, and Dea Lou Schraiber.

*denotes special guest artist

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:

June 4-5, 2024
Monday Evening Concerts
Los Angeles Dance Project, Los Angeles

Premiered at Ojai Music Festival, CA, June 2022

Performed at Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYC, February 2023

Production images by Josh S Rose