Prey
in an evening with w/ Abigail Browde, Sam Kim,
Shannon Hummel and Victoria Libertore
Saturday January 10, 2009 at 4 PM
at The BAX Building, 421 5th Avenue at 8th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Tickets $5(special first First Weekends of 2009 discount) .
Call BAX, 718-832-0018, or resevre tickets online.

Prey is a marriage between the raw, blind intensity to survive with a tender reverence for life. This constant internal struggle plays out in this site-based work where threat of confinement or release, abandonment and restriction haunt those that travel within its walls. Inspired by the diverse and intense works within Richard Einhorn’s acclaimed score, Voices of Light, Prey reveals the close kinships between brutality and tenderness, cowardice and heroism in both animal and human form. This site based version creates an architectural relationship between the building and the dance itself, pushing the limits of dimension and capacity to their most extreme. The building becomes more than a neutral shell but a character within which architecture, light and costuming intermingle to create a terrifyingly austere yet heart-clutchingly tangible environment.

Prey was created with significant support from Robert and Mary Beth Aberlin; through a creative residency from Vermont Performance Lab with assistance from Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont; and through a 2006-2007 Artist Residency from BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange.
Prey photography © 2008 R. Finkelstein.