Housewarming I (a site-specific performance)
Part funeral, part cleaning day, part candlelit dinner for one, Housewarming tests the bounds of what and whom we consider home.
"Housewarming has given me a unique opportunity as a performer to explore questions both deeply personal and communal in real time with an intimate group of witnesses. This space to collectively ponder and wonder feels charged with potential and mystery." (Will Noling, performer).
"Housewarming is a multi-layered and brilliant work, capturing the daily beauty hidden inside the shells of walls, the wars within the home and inside ourselves. It is a work I would see something new in each time viewed, and never get tired of it." (Heather Robles, Community of Motion, Full Review Here)
Commission through ARTS by the People (July 2018)
Dancers: Courtney Barth, Taylor Boyland, Mitch Christie, Will Noling
Choreography: Hannah Garner & Ryan Yamauchi
Text: Hannah Garner & Ryan Yamauchi
Length: 75 minutes
Location: Morristown, NJ
Special thanks to Paul Rabinowitz, the Rabinowitz family, and ARTS by the People.
Premiere (September 2017)
Dancers: Courtney Barth, Mitch Christie, Will Noling, Imani Nia Simmons
Choreography: Hannah Garner & Ryan Yamauchi
Text: Hannah Garner & Ryan Yamauchi
Length: 70 minutes
Music: Aria Duet Ah guarda sorella- Cosi fan tutt composed by Mozart and performed by Renee Fleming and Joyce DiDonato, Flim Flam Flum and Last Song by The Ivor Cutler Trio, Scherzo for piano No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 31 composed by Frédéric Chopin and performed by Simon Trpceski, For Favorite Tree by Yuichiro Fujimoto, Danny Boy performed by The Oriole Four, NBC Nightly News, Lux aeterna: Agnus Dei composed by Morten Lauridsen and performed by the Chamber Choir of Europe
Location: Hannah & Ryan’s apartment
Premiere: Apartment 6B, September 2017
Special thanks to Juno Arreglado, Rosemarie & Patrick Garner, Seneca Lawrence.
Photo Credits: Hannah Garner (title card photo by Ingrid Holmquist)