PILLARS is a triptych video and live performance piece presented by Future Stages Festival at The Juilliard School’s Center for Creative Technology.
PILLARS exists at the intersection of choreography, astrophysics, and music. Inspired by The Pillars of Creation, a stellar nursery in the Eagle Nebula, dance is woven through a landscape of stellar birth and death while exploring female identity and women as pillars in the creation of life.
Marla Phelan’s choreography is enhanced by Director Tim Richardson, Composer Kian Ravaei, Video Artist REINFECTED.ME, Cinematographer Eric Mann, Video Editor Audrey Weiner of Work Editorial, who transform this galactic phenomena into monumental projections and sound score, rendering ecstatic tableaus of allegory and emotion.
PILLARS features performances by Mio Ishikawa, Ingrid Kapteyn, and Eleni Loving with lighting Design by Paul Hudson and Costume Design by Marion Talan.