Brooklyn-based choreographer and director Faye Driscoll takes audiences on a joyous and intriguingly wild ride in Attendance, the first work from her three-part series Thank You for Coming.

Deceptively chaotic and spontaneous, Driscoll rigorously crafts a heightened exploration of
how we experience ourselves in relationship to others. The charged rituals of social engagement are enacted and tweaked to excess by five virtuosic performers, who pass through ever- morphing states of physical entanglement and scenes of distorted familiarity, building new bodies, new stories, and new ways of being around a constantly constructed and re-imagined group experience.

Staged in the round, the lines between performer and spectator are softened until they feel their own culpability as co-creators, and disassemblers, of the performance. As audience and performers increasingly find themselves becoming one, a beautiful and chaotic shared identity emerges, culminating in a dynamic ritual of action and transformation.

The presentation of Thank You for Coming: Attendance continues Arts House’s ongoing exchange program with New York’s Performance Space 122.