Overview
“light of our lives” is about the light of our lives -- literally.
The piece is a chaotic meditation on, simply, light: campfires, fluttering moths, “Caught” by David Parsons (1982), alien abductions, phone screens, the sun, our favourite childhood kaleidoscopes, endoscopies, the heat of stage spotlights, seasonal depression(?), heliotropic flowers, nightclubs, and more. It was inspired by how Kat began to pay attention to scenes of light after learning photography, and a whole new world was illuminated. The process of this piece involved exploring times when light has been salient in memories of the performers and stitching them into the stream of consciousness of the dance. The performers have powerful handheld flashlights that are used to illuminate each other, parts of the stage, and to cast shadows on walls and ceilings. Relying on no lighting technology except for the powerful flashlights held and controlled by the dancers, the piece experiments in being entirely self-sufficient. Because the dancers are holding the only lighting of the whole piece, the choreography is forced to be cognizant of what it wants to be seen and gives the performers an opportunity to troll the audience when desired.