WONDERLAND
takes place at the intersection of Alice in Wonderland and Blade Runner. Audiences travel down the rabbit hole with the performers into the mystery and terror of childhood in a post-apocalyptic world, where the rules of the game are unknown to the players and can change in the blink of an eye.
The set by Mark Nayden is a painted wall that gives the impression of a billboard or tent. The colors are brilliant and playful, but the images of bodies and text are dark and ominous. The music by Deirdre Broderick creates a shifting and powerful sonic landscape. Costumes by Christine Joly de Lotbinniere are beautifully painted, and look as if they have been eaten by acid, or rescued from a rubble heap and re-assembled with decadent elegance.
Commissioned by Jacob's Pillow, Dance Umbrella, Boston, MA and The Flynn Theater, Burlington, VT
About Wonderland: . . . she engineers her end-of-this-world nightmare brilliantly. Movement takes ordeal or transformation as its subject; text or song seize the spirit of movement. The vision of life as brutalizing gives the work an almost terrifying energy and turns performers into survivors.Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice Video: Ellen Sebring
