sky-shattered

Premiered on June 14 & 15, 2024, at konverjdans’ HYPHA performances at The James & Martha Duffy Performance Space, Mark Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn, NY

Choreography: Tiffany Mangulabnan
Original Music Composition & Performance: Bradley Harris
Dancers: Antuan Byers, Tiffany Mangulabnan, Jordan Miller, JoVonna Parks, Amy Saunder, Łukasz Zięba
Costume Design: Reshma Patel-Cline
Lighting Design: Conor Mulligan

Above photography by Arnaud Falchier for konverjdans

In deep nights I dig for you like treasure.
For all I have seen
that clutters the surface of my world
is poor and paltry substitute
for the beauty of you
that has not happened yet…

My hands are bloody from digging.
I lift them, hold them open in the wind,
so they can branch like a tree.

Reaching, these hands would pull you out of the sky
as if you had shattered there,
dashed yourself to pieces in some wild impatience.

What is this I feel falling now,
falling on this parched earth,
softly,
like a spring rain?

— II, 34 by Rainer Maria Rilke from the Book of Hours, translated from the German by Anita Barrows