"Moss and Other Things," by Esmé Boyce Dance

Moss and Other Things is a piece about the coexistence of conflicting experiences. It is about the joy of your child laughing and the simultaneous grief of a loved one lost; going to the park on a perfect afternoon knowing war is ravaging families across oceans; humor and rage bubbling up next to each other. It explores the moments of transcendence in which we move between the everyday and the vast unknown. This work pulls its aesthetic language from a recent trip to Iceland where we wandered lava fields in which soft vibrant moss grew on the hardened, cooled, molten core of the earth, the calm evidence of the Earth’s explosive power.

Moss and Other Things

Choreography + Direction by Esmé Julien Boyce

Performance by Ching-I Chang, Esmé Julien Boyce, Caroline Fermin, Pierre Guilbault, Cori Kresge, and Hope Littwin

Music Composition by Cody Boyce, Dreamt Dreamer, Eleanor Hovda, and Hope Littwin