Last Minute Malfunction of the Pyrotechnics Display
Choreography, direction, design & performance: evan ray suzuki
with performing collaborators: Dominica Greene, Amelia Heintzelman, Sabrina Leira, Zo Williams
Production History:
2024 — Movement Research at the Judson Church — NY, NY (in-progress)
Solo in-progress showings:
2024 — MOMENTA #013, Trans-Pecos — Queens, NY
2023 — La MaMa Umbria International — Santa Maria Reggiana, ITALY (as ‘ghostly body’)
2023 — New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival #37, Abrons Arts Center — NY, NY (as ‘New Work’)
Last Minute Malfunction of the Pyrotechnics Display has been developed, in part, with support from a 2023-2024 Makers Lab Residency at Ars Nova and a 2023 Next Generation Residency from the Centro Umbro di Residenze Artistiche.
photos by Rachel Keane, courtesy of Movement Research
An internet chat room. The mosh pit of a noise show. An empty gate at an airport. A graveyard on a foggy morning. Engaging with ideas of the liminal and the in-between, Last Minute Malfunction of the Pyrotechnics Display inhabits these spaces and others in a butoh-ish exploration of an increasing feeling of “unbodiedness” in the ever-digitizing landscape.
