Encounters between strangers in a bathtub, in a small candlelit room packed in with the toilet…Camilla Maling’s soundscore squeaked and thrashed its way out of the main bathroom door to the hallway where Milka Djordjevich and her dancers crawled glacially through a hallway full of homeLA visitors
Below the Metal, Skin ran for three hours in the exquisite, 3-room bathroom of Summercamp Projects in El Serreno last Sunday, March 9, 2014. While the piece has been presented by Moviehouse at (the now defunct) 3rd Ward and by the Oklahoma Dance Film Festival, this event allowed me to realize the piece most fully, creating a new environment in one that is common and otherwise functional – a transposition of our dear WW II buoy “Tender” Lilac Steamship and two mysterious bodies that have either grown out of the ship’s bottom or are succumbing back into it’s very mechanisms (Alberto Denis and Heather Hoffman).
Looking forward to its next iteration and adaptation.
Thank you homeLA and Rebecca Bruno, and Carol McDowell for her generous assistance.
