WE (ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURES)

Photos by Chris Randall

Conceived and choreographed by Emily Coates

Directed by Ain Gordon

We is a multi-artist, hybrid performance/lecture utilizing text, video, installation and the body. The work is ultimately about human and artistic struggles to represent and connect with our natural world. Emily Coates and Emmanuèle Phuon each created an indoor and an outdoor section that are then intertwined. In Emily Coates’s We (Atmospheric Pressures), dance collides with scientific discovery and the stars, restoring the inherent physicality in human understanding of the universe. Through surprising sources—19th c. weather journals, galactic 1930s choreography, reimagined ancient astronomical rites, an astronaut’s 20th c. space walk—cosmic dances drift across the centuries, bodying forth the cosmos in love and science.

Conceived and choreographed by Emily Coates
Directed by Ain Gordon
Performed by Emily Coates, Derek Lucci, and Emmanuèle Phuon
Music by Taylor Ho Bynum/Charlie Burnham
Costume design for the blue dress by Harriet Jung and Reid Bartleme
Lighting by Kelly Martin.

Administrated by the Pick Up Performance Co.

Touring:

Dartmouth College, Hanover NH, June 2022
The Quick Center, Fairfield, CT, April 2023
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Tivoli, NY, June 2023