MEMORY SILO (2019)

Where did you come from? Count the days, weeks, months, and years. Cells and genes from parents, grandparents, great, great, great…all the way back. Thousands of years. Millions. Someone survived and lived a life, so now you do too. What are your stories?

“Memory Silo” is a collaborative work between performer and performer and audience and performer. Participants are invited to share memories, written on notecards, which are then chosen at random and read aloud. Performers interact and construct movement based on their interpretation of the memory, in real time.

This process generates a new thread of community memory, past individual experience coalescing in present shared experience. “Memory Silo” personalizes each performance for the audience members participating, allowing them to see different bodies, identities, and ages through which their stories are filtered. This work features a unique and challenging blend of dance, theater, and improvisation. It is often humorous, somber, and vulnerable but ever the same way twice.