Maggie Crowe’s choreography takes inspiration from interpersonal relationships and the ebb and flow of human connections. Using the sea, waves, and tides as conceptual metaphors, her piece tracks the cyclical intensification and decline of emotion.
In lighting the piece, I sought to reflect the ever-escalating intensity of emotion captured by the choreography, heightening without pause, without hesitation, in single-minded obsession, until the constructed frenzy suddenly and unexpectedly falls apart. I asked myself how to make the audience feel the same emotions that the piece was inspired by - how to force the audience to take part rather than simply observe. To do so, the house became an extension of the stage, as the light spilled off the edge, wrapping each onlooker in the same atmosphere experienced by the dancers.
