ARMAGEDDON OR SUNRISE OR SOMETHING

Artist's Statement: "ARMAGEDDON OR SUNRISE OR SOMETHING is an evening length duet made for and by Mauriah Kraker and her collaborator, Leah Wilks. The work is built on investigations of exhaustion, endurance and the sensuality/the geographic of both internal and external landscapes. The duo grapples with the necessity of proximity to each other: they shake, rumble and drag each other to the ground, carry + sing to each other. Pulling from the duo’s different training histories in improvisation, Olympic-level sport, ballet, modern dance technique, photography, and sound design, the piece functions as both a grief ritual and a space for reckoning with limitation. Throughout the work the body becomes landscape, home, monument, spellcaster, caretaker, boundary, and the location of desire."