Section 1: Decomposition Score

Section 1: Decomposition Score

When: The very beginning

Where: The long hallway

Who: Duets + Audience


Section 2: Caught in the Bones

Section 2: Caught in the Bones

Score: Drape, Drip, Drop

Who: All of us

Where: Underwater

Music: Max Richter From Sleep


Section 3: Burials at Sea

Section 3: Burials at Sea

Who: Toby MacNutt

Sound: Arranged by Toby MacNutt sourcing sounds from freesound.org

What: A solo co-choreographed by Nicole and Toby for another project. Toby and Nicole have many inspirational overlaps, and this one was connected through a poem of Toby’s, Burials at Sea, another imagination of a body foregone to the sea and to the sky.


Section 4: She Tangled

Section 4: She Tangled

Who: Laila and Jen

Sound: Melinda

Why: What moves us, what ensnares us?


Section 5: Stirred to a thrashing froth

Section 5: Stirred to a thrashing froth

Who: Nicole, Jessie, Jen, Mireya

What: Tugged by the bones of her own ribs, she was dragged up from the sea.


Section 6: Searching

Section 6: Searching

Who: All

When: In a dream

Why: It is our favorite


Section 7: Bubbling up

Section 7: Bubbling up

Who: All

How: Climbing and Descending


Section 8: Laying out the bones

Section 8: Laying out the bones

Who: All, including you

Why: Unexpected tenderness, the recognition of body, untangling the toes,


Section 9: Flesh, Flesh, Flesh

Section 9: Flesh, Flesh, Flesh

Who: Nicole and Jessie

What: The love story. Singing back the flesh. Beating back the heart.


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Section 1: Decomposition Score
Section 2: Caught in the Bones
Section 3: Burials at Sea
Section 4: She Tangled
Section 5: Stirred to a thrashing froth
Section 6: Searching
Section 7: Bubbling up
Section 8: Laying out the bones
Section 9: Flesh, Flesh, Flesh