The Architecture of Loss (2012)
Concept and Choreography: Stephen Petronio
Music: Valgeir Sigurðsson
Costume Design: Guðrun & Guðrun
Visual Design: Rannva Kunoy (Artwork) & Ravi Rajan (Projections)
Lighting Design: Ken Tabachnick
Original Cast: Julian De Leon, Davalois Fearon, Josh D Green, Gino Grenek, Barrington Hinds, Natalie Mackessy, Jaqlin Medlock, Nicholas Sciscione, Emily Stone, Joshua Tuason, Amanda Wells
Premiered: March 6, 2022, The Joyce Theater (New York, NY)
Commission Partners: Nordic House (Faroe Islands)
Duration: 35 minutes
“Stephen Petronio’s melancholy, disturbingly beautiful new Architecture of Loss…is not trying to show us mourning as a response to loss; he’s showing us loss as absence and the evanescence of supporting structures. …it feels the way a room feels when someone dear to you has gone away for a long time.”
_ DanceBeat at Arts Journal
Photo credits: Sarah Silver, Julie Lemberger