Donna Uchizono Company

Thin Air

Donna Uchizono's striking visual worlds expose the extraordinary in the ordinary. An amalgam of metic-ulously structured, visceral movement and riveting imagery, the work posseses an intellectual fervor that brings into sharp focus the complexity and fragility of the human psyche. Her new evening-length work, Thin Air, explores how our sense of reality is both shaped and obscured by our perceptions, emphasizing the intimate emotional power of ‘real' physical contact in a landscape that is both true and virtual. Thin Air is a collaboration with dancers Hristoula Harakas, Antonio Ramos, and Julie Alexander; composer Fred Frith; video artist Michael Casselli; and lighting designer Jane Shaw.

Thin Air is commissioned by the Bessie Schönberg/First Light Commiss-ioning Program and Creative Residency Program of Dance Theater Workshop with support from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation. Thin Air is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in partnership with Dance Theater Workshop, ODC Theater and the National Performance Network.