Moss Anthology #5 (2024)

BUGLISI DANCE THEATRE
Choreographer Jacqulyn Buglisi
Commissioned Composer Jeff Beal
Lighting Designer Jack Mehler
Co-Projection Desigers Wendall K. Harrington, Yana Biryükova
Costume Design A. Christina Giannini
Rehearsal Directors Jessica Higgins, Jessica Sgambelluri
Performed by Lauren Jaeger, Aoi Sato
Lindsay Jorgensen, Isabella Pagano, Grace Sautter
Lauryn Rickman, Ashley Bromfield, Kennedy Davidson
Filmed by Jacob Hiss and Edited by Jonathan Fahoury
Cover photo by Steven Pisano
Rock, Ritual, Earth, Tree, Ritual 2, Gaia
The Moss project is an awakening that seeks to bring awareness through dance, the universal language of the body, to the current global environmental crises that threatens the existence of all life. Buglisi is greatly inspired by Potawatomi author and botanist Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer whose “Gathering Moss” draws on the wisdom of indigenous ways of knowing and scientific knowledge for the sustainability of humanity through the practice of reciprocity. For Variation #5 of the Moss Anthology, Buglisi collaborates with composer Jeff Beal and projection designer Wendall Harrington, who invited BDT to be in residence at the Yale School of Drama. The work has been performed on the East and West coasts, and commissioned by the UCSB Dance Company touring Scandinavia and Europe.
Buglisi Dance Theatre is honored to perform in the vildwerk.s inaugural season supporting its conservation initiatives through the art of dance. This variation #5 is especially created for the vildwerk performances.
The original creation of “Moss Anthology Variations” is made possible through a choreographer/composer commissioning grants from the O’Donnell Music and Dance Foundation, and through the generous support of Jody & John Arnhold, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, and with public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. BDT is grateful to the Howard Gilman Foundation for hosting a residency at the White Oak Conservation Center that provided creative exploration in the heart of the natural world.
Choreography copyright © Jacqulyn Buglisi 2019
Music copyright © Jeff Beal 2019, Courtesy of Post Meridian Music. Management Past | Future Consultants