dis-located (’89)
Choreography by Louise Reichlin
Music by Michael Shrieve, Steve Roach, David torn, Spielman und kleriker (Lai des Amans), Sergei Prokofiev
Original score by Paul Hodgins
Costumes by Linda Borough and Louise Reichlin
dis-located is set on three homeless people, but it grew out of specific feelings and how they crystallize into movement. The feelings are those we have when we deal with displacement- like the immigrant who arrives in a new land, the situation of transition and instability, and loss, whether of a relationship or a job, that has provided security in the past.
Press
"Reichlin's premiere, dis-located, studies homelessness and disempowerment. Avoiding a comfortably distant cliché of the lazy, boozed out homeless, she focuses on three women's highly personal stories. One in particular has a piercing impact. In section four, Third Memory, Howard Sun Tom first courts Sy Byram with gifts, then abuses her, punching and literally walking over her, only to strip away the presents and stroll away from his subjugated love. Beautifully performed with a chilling callousness and uncomprehending despair, Third Memory is an elegant swirl of subtly disorienting flows."
"dis-located, which was given its premiere, featured soloists Ruriko Sakumi Duer, Linda Machida and Sy Byram as three homeless women lost in their own memories. Duer is drawn to a Japanese figure with kimono and fan (Yumiko Kawaguchi); Machida romps with a leaping, spinning, athletic trio; and Byram suffers at the hands of a boxer (Howard Sun Tom), who enfolds her in a frilly shawl and then knocks her to the ground."