Faye Driscoll’s newest work Weathering is a multi-sensory flesh and breath sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects. Ten performers enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene. Their voices generate a score that crescendos and resonates as they clutch, careen and cleave, in a space too small to contain them, spilling off the edges. The audience embanks the performers, close enough to smell the sweat and feel the steam of the central, spiraling scenes. The symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking, choreography of micro-events within a momentum thrusting from just beyond the perceivable. Driscoll and her team of collaborators ask: How do we feel the impact of events moving through us which are so much larger? Yet are animating and activating our bodies all the time? How do we get closer to the impact? Can we slow down enough to feel the dust, hurt, howl, absence, spill, plume?

All performances take place at Ada Slaight Hall, Daniels Spectrum (585 Dundas St E, Toronto)

Thursday, January 18, 8pm
Friday, January 19, 8pm
Saturday, January 20, 8pm
Sunday, January 21, 5pm

Run time: 65 minutes. Suggested for audiences 6 years and older.

Weathering uses atmospheric elements such as vapour, water, loud sounds, and plumes from various materials.

Artscape Daniels Spectrum is a physically-accessible venue with single-gender accessible washrooms and drinking fountains. Hearing assist devices are available on request.