8 MINUTES 17 SECONDS

January, 2020
The Theatre Centre, Toronto

Commission by Blue Ceiling Dance for Bare Nerve (Emma Kerson + Jane-Alison McKinney)

Other choreography by Lucy Rupert, Karen Kaeja, Michael Caldwell, and Hume Baugh

Original music by Jascha Narveson, Marley Rosen and astrophysicist Matt Russo

Lighting design by Michelle Ramsay

Exploring the nature and behaviour of light in transit from the Sun to Earth, and the emotional resonances of a short, finite time frame of 8:17, the work looked at the death of a star, the wonder and pulse of the universe and our own preoccupation with mortality.