| Ralph Lemon |
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Collaborators in Residence: Jim Findlay [sets/projection designer], Roderick Murray [lighting designer], Djedje Djedje Gervais, Darrell Jones, Gesel Mason, Okwui Okpokwasili, Omagbitse Omagbemi and David Thomson [peformers] Lemon imagines the work as a multimedia theatrical performance/installation/video in four parts: Sunshine Room, Wall/Hole, No Room and Rescuing the Princess. Described as a “speculative fiction epic,” the project bridges the personal and the universal in an exploration of the possibilities of intercultural collaboration, the allegiances of race, and the power and unreliability of memory. The question of transcendence lays at the heart of How Can You Stay. Driving the project is, in Lemon’s words, “what every sentient being debates: where are we, how did we get here, and where are we going?” In How Can You Stay, the way forward is through human connection—the human destiny of partnership—portrayed and designed by intimate relationships of an ensemble of contemporary dancers, actors, sound, video and lighting designers. This work has evolved from Lemon’s eight-year collaboration with centenarian Walter Carter, a former sharecropper who lived his entire life in Bentonia, MS. It is scheduled to premiere September 16, 2010 at the Krannert Center in Urbana, IL. Past Entrypoint:
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