Performances will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City.

Co-presented with Under The Radar.

“I am the sky” explains performer/creator Paul Lazar at the beginning of Anne Carson’s “Lecture on the History of Skywriting”. In a swirl of song, dance, video, lectures and phone calls, Paul relives the fantastical, imaginative, poignant, comic, riotous adventure of the life of the sky itself.

From love before the Big Bang (“Most of my paramours were chunks of frozen rock – miniature suns, minor moons, dwarf planets…”) to being an accomplice in modern warfare (“delivering the hysterical valentines of your desire (bombs) through my beautiful blue air.”) Paul shares the stage with Mezzo Soprano Hai—Ting Chin who sings music by composers John Cage and Michael Gordon, as Paul and Hai—Ting, plus some clouds, dance the choreography of Annie-B Parson. The performance, written in its entirety by Anne Carson, begins as a lecture and evolves into an intergalactic joy ride.

Created by Paul Lazar. Text by Anne Carson. Choreography by: Annie-B Parson. Performed by Hai-Ting Chinn and Paul Lazar. Original music by Michael Gordon. Sound design by Johny Gasper. Lighting Design by Madeline Best. Costumes by Oana Botez. Cloud Hats by Liv Rigdon. Cloud Dancers: Caitlin Canty, Sarah Kooner, and Cassie Wang. Set design by Amy Rubin. Co-Video Design by Johny Gasper and Josh Higgason. Produced by Big Dance Theater/Sara Pereira da Silva.