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

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Emerging from the question: while walking with our ancestors and future ancestors, what is a balm that moves backwards as well as forwards? S H I N E addresses the importance of the immaterial within living systems through exploring space as a living entity.

S H I N E reimagines The Chocolate Factory’s post-industrial performance space as a dynamic environment formed through deliberate and delicate actions, both physical and digital. Sculptural elements become spatialized media objects, amidst the ephemeral presence of sound holograms in the space, to communicate a type of physicality and weight central to the processing of emotion and experience.

The work offers an opportunity for embodied dialogue that exists outside of the typical colonial notions of “subjecthood” and “objecthood”. Encouraging audience agency through the use of distributed sound, video and movement, S H I N E highlights unseen mechanisms of care, the thin boundaries between call and response, and the delicate machinery of intentional communal action.

Created and Performed by Chloe Alexandra Thompson and DB Amorin. Wave Field Synthesis Array Provided by Andrew Schneider. Composer, Spatial Audio Arrangement, Interactives Programming: Chloe Alexandra Thompson. Video Design: DB Amorin. Dramaturgical Consultant: Joseph M. Pierce. Choreographic Consultant: devynn emory. Lighting Designer: Itohan Edoloyi. Scenic Designer/Fabricator: Marshall LaCount.

Co-produced by Onassis ONX. Supported by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.