Event

Carriage (NYC Premiere)

Carriage is a site-responsive performance created by Matty Davis and Ben Gould that radically explores control and empathy, motored in part by the raw energy of Gould's Tourette Syndrome. The work will be presented in full for the first time at Queenslab in New York City on March 29th, followed by a performance on March 31st upon a rooftop adjacent to Davis' studio where significant parts of Carriage were researched and developed. (This rooftop was also the filming location of Held Over Shore, a 16mm short film based on Carriage made with artist Eryka Dellenbach. It can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/246698783/981a46c5a2)

Carriage is informed by evolving senses of the body--injury, trauma, healing, and growth--and offers a unique opportunity to create a work that draws from the variance of Davis and Gould's distinct physicalities. The result is an intense, viscerally and sonically charged experience, where empathy is a physical tool, resistance offers stability, and we are all cast out into a space that levels us, brings us real fear, awakening, new vocabularies and physical structures.

These performances of Carriage marks the culmination of a three-week residency at Queenslab, and the commencement of a national tour. In 2018, Carriage will travel the U.S. with performances in a wide range of sites, responding to the ground and the way surfaces offer the body resistance and support. From ice, to grass, to concrete, and within a wide variety of architectures, the work continuously evolves and re-composes itself according to the unique visual, sonic, and spatial possibilities of each site.

Carriage has been workshopped at Judson Church, the Watermill Center, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Philadelphia School. It was supported through a residency at the Kickstarter Headquarters in NYC.

Conceived, created, and performed by Matty Davis and Ben Gould
Produced by Jade Thacker
Clothes by Gabriella Lacza