Excerpts from figures on a field, Dean Moss, 2005
A 2005 performance collaboration with visual artist Laylah Ali, figures on a field questions patterns of cultural consumption through the “staging” of Ali’s provocative “Greenhead” paintings and the museum environment in which they are exhibited.
“In a brilliant move, choreographer Dean Moss translates Ali’s knotty concerns to the stage (with Ali as adviser) by scrutinizing the act of translation itself. The exquisitely constructed “figures on a field” asks: What happens when you frame real people as if they were flat, fictive figures? It moves with stealthy grace between the political and aesthetic meanings of “frame.”
—Apollinaire Scherr, New York Newsday
Original Cast: Kacie Chang, Keila Cordova, Pedro Jimenez, Wanjiru Kamuyu, Okwui Okopokwasili, David Thomson, and Dean Moss
Concept and Construction: Dean Moss with Laylah Ali
Music: Marcel Duchamp, MEXI, Nguyen van Coung
Lighting and Technical Direction: Jonathan Belcher
Scene Development: Laylah Ali, Dean Moss
Choreography, Audio/Video & Visual Design: Dean Moss
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