Sophie
Bortolussi
Director - Choreographer - Performer - Teacher
Sophie Bortolussi
Director - Choreographer - Performer - Teacher
Home
(2017)
Creator: Geoff Sobelle
Directed by: Lee Sunday Evans
Performers: Sophie Bortolussi, Josh Crouch, Jennifer Kidwell, Justin Rose, Geoff Sobelle, Ching Valdez
Music: Elvis Perkins
Choreography: David Neumann
Set: Steven Dufala
Illusion Consultant: Steve Cuiffo
Sound: Brandon Wolcott
“…HOME adds up to a wholly unique blend of concept, stagecraft, movement, music, and visual storytelling that gives fast-moving form to the ways, large and small, in which a house becomes a home.”
— The Boston Globe
“...stunningly complex, for both its on-stage house-building and for its content. (...)a grand-scale theatrical project whose unfolding you may watch, at moments, in astonishment.”
— Newsworks.org
HOME is a large-scale performance work that explores and explodes the relationship between “House” and “Home.” A visual physical spectacle, HOME combines dance, illusion, live music, home-spun engineering, and an inventive use of audience interaction to compose a work that asks, where is home? If it is not a place, what is home? In the face of entropy, we struggle to build infra- structure, family, community, art. We fail, and we try again.
On stage, a house appears from nothing. It goes up fast, choreographed like time-lapse photography. Residents move in, move out, get evicted, burn it down, loot it, rent it, remodel it, get married and divorced in it, grow up in it, die in it, haunt it — and all the while, they leave and live among traces of residents present, past, and future. They throw a party, as if everyone who ever lived there could cohabitate, transcending the logic of time and space.
Taiwan @ Wei Wu Ying Center in Kaohsiung, May 11-12, 2019
Berkeley Repertory, Bay area, March 22-April 21, 2019
HK Arts Festival (Hong Kong), March 14-16, 2019
Sydney Festival (Australia), January 9-18, 2019
Brisbane Festival (Australia), September 12-15, 2018
Edinburgh International Festival (UK), August 22-26, 2018
Ruhrfestspiele (Germany), June 1-2, 2018
New Zealand Festival, March 7-11, 2018
NYC @ BAM Next Wave Festival, December 6-10, 2017
Boston @ Arts Emerson, September 27-October 1, 2017
Philadelphia @ FringeArts Festival, September 13-16, 2017
Photo: Jonathan Potter