this mountain
This mountain is interested in ordinary beauty, bringing a notion or experience of the sublime into what we could consider the mundane or daily lifeness. How do people come together? how do we choose to find ourselves and each other in the every day?—the sort of quiet work and beauty, of living our lives together, in community. Especially now when we are greatly fractured and divided throughout many communities, what does it mean to find spaces of unexpected community and quiet resistance?
Premiered in January, 2019 Commissioned and presented by Whim W’him as part of the 3x3 program.
CHOREOGRAPHY
Zoe Scofield with dancers
REHEARSAL ASSISTANT
Shane Donohue
DANCERS
Liane Aung, Cameron Birts, Jane Cracovaner, Adrian Hoffman, Jim Kent, Mia Monteabaro, Karl Watson
MUSIC
Primitive Baptist Sacred Harp Singers, Glenn Gould with Zoe Scofield
COSTUMES
Milena Hranac
LIGHTING DESIGN
Michael Mazzola
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
Becca Blackwell
LIGHTING COORDINATOR
Michael Mzriek
TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
Dave Scamporlina
Photo: Stefano Altamura
In the Press
I found myself riveted by the movements. In their simple repetitions, they carried me beyond my seat in the Cornish Playhouse.
Marcie Sillman, And Another Thing…
One visual cue that brought the dancers across a stark rectangle of light was especially stunning.
Megan Burbank, The Seattle Times
I love Scofield’s willingness to probe the mysteries of faith without apology – especially in a historical moment when the dire effects of immoral power are threatening our country and the world.
Sharon Cumberland, Seattle Gay News