Dancers Jason Dietz Marchant and Lindsey Dietz. Photo by Stephen Schreiber.
Wet Road is a 45-minute work for four dancers (two women and two men) and a female skeptic/observer. Envisioning the body as obstacle and pathway - a site of hazardous entrapment and source of irresistible pleasure - the movement language revolves around leg trapping, fragile balances and a shared central axis. Wet Road imagines mating as an intensely danced dream-like blend of lust, trust, tenderness and threat.
Wet Road was an attempt to describe the ambivalence and trepidation that accompanies desire by exploring the human body as both an obstacle and a pathway. Fragile balances, the trapping of limbs, and an often displaced central axis characterized the movement language and partner
The first time I caught a break in New York was in 2003 when Craig Peterson saw me dance a solo I’d just made called Approach and Retreat at WAX in Williamsburg. He came up afterwards to talk about an opportunity to show my work at Dance Theater Workshop.
Choreography: Kate Weare
Original Score: Katie Down
Costume Design: Astrud Angarita
Lighting Design: Joe Levasseur:
Originating Dancers: Kate Weare, Jason Marchant, Lindsey Dietz Marchant, Adrian Clark, Leslie Kraus
Wet Road was commissioned by the Bessie Schonberg/First Light Commissioning Program of Dance Theater Workshop with funds from The Jerome Foundation of St. Paul, MN.
Dancers Jason Dietz Marchant and Lindsey Dietz. Photo by Stephen Schreiber.
