Tickets: $15

Landing Sites is an inquiry into the experiences of reality and their consequences in our lives. It will look at the immediate and long-term effects that our perceptions of reality have on the way we produce meaning, belief systems, and changes in our environment. It will manifest has an immersive sensory installation where movement, text, sound, vocals and light and material space will invite the audience to shift phenomenal perceptions.

Conceived and performed by BkSD artist-in-resident Daria Faïn, Landing Sites is a dance-theater work that's currently in development. We invite you to witness this early stage of the work and contribute to a discussion about the experience of reality, which will inform her process. The performance at this time will not yet involve collaborators. It is purely an experience of movement as a visceral experience of reality.

In all my experiences I am conscious of a hand. Whatever moves me, whatever thrills me, is a hand that touches me in the dark, and that touches my reality. – Helen Keller

Originally from the Mediterranean, Faïn has lived in Brooklyn since 1996. For three decades, she has been deeply influenced by Asian philosophy of the body, ancient Greek theater, and the studying of architecture. Faïn has conducted extensive research in sensory perception and human behaviors leading her to work with physically and mentally impaired people in collaboration with professionals. With architect-poet Robert Kocik they co-founded the Prosodic Body in 2006, a research field that explores language as a vibratory medium that interrelates art, health, and social change. In 2008, they co-founded The Commons Choir, a performance group with a variable cast of roughly 30 performers. For more info about Daria, click here.

*Stay tuned for details on Daria's other performances at BkSD. 

*The piece will eventually involve invited guests including dancers, a visual artist, a light designer, musicians, thinkers and friends. Landing Sites is commissioned and presented by the Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens, New York where it will premiere in 2019-2020.