Faye Driscoll: Weathering

Faye Driscoll is a Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award and Doris Duke Award-winning performance maker who has been hailed as a “startlingly original talent” by The New York Times and “a post-millenium postmodern wild woman” by The Village Voice. She returns to the Pillow to present Weathering, first developed in a Pillow Lab residency in 2022.

Weathering is a multi-sensory performance sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids, and objects, in which ten people enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene, with the audience embanking the performers. This symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking choreography of micro-events within a momentum thrusting from just beyond the perceivable.

The piece is “a testament to commitment, perseverance and courage not soon forgotten” (Boston Globe). In our contemporary moment, when the movements and forces that shape lives can seem difficult to grasp, Driscoll and her collaborators ask: “How do we feel the impact of large events in the intimacy of our own bodies?”

Driscoll's work has been presented at leading cultural institutions and festivals worldwide, including Tanz im August, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, La Biennale di Venezia, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Melbourne Festival, Belfast International Arts Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Centro de Arte Experimental in Buenos Aires, Julidans Amsterdam, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Festival Dias da Dança in Porto, and Festival TransAmeriques (Montreal).

A testament to commitment, perseverance and courage not soon forgotten.

Boston Globe