fault lines
fault lines is a multi-year project that was performed as the following:
fault lines: desecrated temple
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August 2022; Asia Pacific Dance Festival Conference in University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
fault lines: moon portals
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September 2022; Human Resources Los Angeles in residence with iris yirei hu
fault lines: broken maps
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November 2022; Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio
fault lines: quaking
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January 2023; Movement Research at the Judson Church, New York, New York
fault lines: edge of the continent
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May 2023; Fort Funston, San Francisco, CA
Premiered: fault lines: edge of the continent
May 2023, Fort Funston
Collaborators:
Creative Director:
Bhumi B Patel
Sonic Composers:
Rachel Austin & Sholeh Asgary
Performers:
Hannah Meleokaiao Ayasse, Tessa Nebrida, Lawrence Tome, Elizabeth Sugawara, Bhumi B Patel
Costumes:
Iris Yirei Hu
Stage Manager + Production Coordinator:
Em Kane
Production Coordinator:
Syon Davis
Technical Directors:
Michael Mersereau & Kevin Lo
fault lines is a multidisciplinary collaboration with queer and Asian performance artists, experimental composers, and a visual artist. In this unprecedented moment, we witness the ongoing pandemics entrench inequality and erode the already brittle infrastructure we stand upon. As seismologist Nicholas van der Elst explains “seen from above, [faults] appear as broad zones of deformation, with many faults braided together.” The tectonic forces of xenophobia, orientalism, homophobia and transphobia collide with climate catastrophe - leaving us dancing on unstable ground. Fort Funston is uniquely positioned upon a bluff that is made up of sedimentary rocks that formed along the San Andreas fault line over the last two million years.
Funding:
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Alameda County ARTSfund
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California Arts Council
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City of Berkeley Civic Arts
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DanceUSA
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Phyillis C. Wattis Foundation
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Rainin Foundation
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YBG Seed Commission
edge of the continent | may 2023
quaking | january 2023
broken maps | november 2023
moon portals | september 2022
desecrated temple | august 2022
"Patel’s work is intriguing for all the ways it reimagines what dance can be. With fault lines, Patel offers a dance which is free of charge, in public space, travels between sites, is outside, thus subject to the unpredictability of Mother Nature, and uses vocalizations. As a friend noted, it explores questions, rather than providing perfect answers."
- Jen Norris, Jen Norris Dance Reviews, May 23, 2023
