after dark

Guest Artist for choreographic + teaching residency

2023

︎ Commission for John Hopkins University’s Peabody Preparatory Dance Department
︎ Choreographic and Teaching Residency with students
︎ Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Premiere at the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall in Baltimore, Maryland, USA


At night, when we dream, we fall into a labyrinth of worlds, our imagination stretching into new territories. We pass through whimsical and surreal -scapes as logic turns upside down and inside out. We enter dream logic where anything is possible. In these darkest hours of the night, our imaginations freely run.

In our intensive week together, the dancers deep dived into their own imaginative worlds as they also recalled recurring dreams. From these places we began to weave together a collective dream—some moments nightmare, and maybe some simply dream worlds that have no end. Where the absurd and illogical meet yet we accept the logic of it all nonetheless.

Inside the labyrinth of these collective dream worlds, we invite you to let your imagination soar through each world you enter. Welcome to our dream.

Credits

DIRECTION + CHOREOGRAPHY | Yasmine Lindskog Visanko
REHEARSAL DIRECTOR | Franki Graham
MUSIC | Tiny Tim, Christina Vantzou, CoH, Lesley Gore, Romance, Kangding Ray, The Crew Cuts, Lucrecia Dalt, Four Tet
DANCERS | Declan Casey, Elizabeth Coulson, Lavender Fu, Salma Hassanein, Helia Hung, Julia Nguyen,
Ellis Thompson, Krassi Trainor, and Lizzie Wiggin

Photography by Paul Wegner