lightness has a call that’s hard to hear. (2022)
Originally co-presented by Art Gym Denver & square product theatre
Stage Manager/LBO: Rosie Glasscock
Lighting Design: Nick Cozzo
Dramaturgy: LA Samuelson
Premiered at Art Gym Denver (Denver, CO), April 2022.
The original creation of lightness has a call that’s hard to hear. was supported through an Art Gym Create Award Residency, with additional production and performance support from square product theatre and Nick Cozzo | Lighting Design. | This work is adaptable for half-evening length (approx. 30-40 minutes) and abridged (approx. 8-15 minutes) performances. Video examples available upon request: ellehong[dot]art[at]gmail[dot]com.
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“Well, darkness has a hunger that's insatiable/
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear.”
—Indigo Girls, “Closer to Fine”
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear.”
—Indigo Girls, “Closer to Fine”
A dance as shadow work, lightness has a call that’s hard to hear. asks: What do we learn by inhabiting and confronting our own repression? What parts of ourselves do we hide either intrinsically or extrinsically? What are we afraid to do—and how might doing the scary thing set us free?
There’s just something about her I don’t like about myself. What do we project onto others, that then becomes telling of our own inner desires?
lightness... logs transformation in real time; it documents a desire for change, before and after that change has occurred. How does dance hold space for the mutability of being, shifting and adapting as we do?
This is a dance about the things only you can do for yourself—and the moment where you realize there are some things that only you can do for yourself. Through movement, text, and audience choral orchestration, the work sets forth intentions for embodying lightness while acknowledging its inextricable ties to darkness and heaviness.
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Broadway World: “LIGHTNESS HAS A CALL THAT’S HARD TO HEAR Comes to square product theatre,” by Stephi Wild (Mar. 2022)