The Other Shore: Always Now

Always Now is one of two complementary works within zoe | juniper’s performance, The Other Shore. In Always Now, the audience is guided through different spaces and positions to witness the performances, including lying comfortably on the floor, while multiple dancers move around and above them. With an exciting cast of 5 local and international dancers, Always Now explores perspective, lived experience, and body language as the audience is invited to experience the piece from very different viewpoints. Each audience member experiences their own unique performance based on where they are lying.

The Other Shore is an immersive media installation space, inviting intimate groups of audience members to experience a performance from the ground up. At the intersection of dance, installation, video, and technology, The Other Shore is presented in two distinct sections and seeks to spark a simple shift in the structure of traditional performance to alter the relationship between audience and dancer. In collaboration with designers Sara Brown, Evan Christian Anderson, and Bobby McElver, the work aims to expose vulnerabilities of performers and audiences. As well as examine the experience of seeing and being seen, now. 

The Other Shore is supported by the Princess Grace Foundation Special Projects award. The Other Shore was co-commissioned by Jacob's Pillow and developed in the Pillow Lab, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Other Shore was co-commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Special thanks to MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Creative residency provided by On the Boards, Mass MoCA, MOtiVE Brooklyn and NueBox Phoenix. Thank you to the MASS MoCA Technical Crew and Stagg, Jacob’s Pillow technical crew and staff, On to Boards, Velocity Dance Center, Princess Grace Foundation, John Robinson, our Patreon supporters, and all the generous artists who are helping to make this possible.