Co-directed by Emilie Leriche and Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, On Mending is a live interdisciplinary dance production. It uses physical metaphor and imagery to explore three main tenets; the impermanent, the imperfect and the incomplete. Using these three ideas, specifically in relation to one’s concept of self/body, home, and community, On Mending negotiates with what it means to mend, to tend to, and to rebuild. The work contemplates the universal endeavor of processing one’s grief and reflects on how we tend to our trauma and loss - a process unique to each individual in its difficulties and challenges. At its root, On Mending is a contemplation on support, on community, on the action of releasing what we can no longer carry with us.
On Mending
Choreography: Emilie Leriche & Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern
Performance: Miguel Duarte, Dario Rigaglia, Stephanie Amurao, Alex Clair, Emilie Leriche, Shawn Fitzgerald Aher
Dramaturgy: Jonathan Fredrickson
Lighting Design: Matt Miller
Sound Composition: Wolff Bergen
Costume Design: Veerle Van den Wouwer
Stage Management: Lucy Bonin & Alexis Hinman
This work-in-progress showing is presented with the generous support of Baryshnikov Arts Center, Princess Grace Foundation-USA Work in Progress Grant, Konstnärsnämnden, The Swedish Arts Grant Committee, Treacy & Darcy Beyer, Carine Magescas, Monadnock Academy of Movement Arts
On Mending was first developed as a film while in residence at Orsolina28 in Moncalvo, Italy
Emilie Leriche
Emilie Leriche is a French-American freelance dancer and creator based in Berlin, Germany. Following two seasons in their second company, Leriche spent four seasons dancing with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago under the direction of Glenn Edgerton.
Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern
Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern is a movement director and performer who emphasizes humanity in his work. Following seven years creating and performing full time with Pilobolus, he moved to Belgium where he spent four years as lead performer and choreographic assistant to choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.