marion spencer & collaborators will present an excerpt from h o r i z o n , an interdisciplinary ensemble dance project that calls upon movement, sound, light and materials to investigate the ensemble as an organism of futurity.
Studying mycorrhizal networks – the roots of fungi that connect tree roots to each other underground, creating a network that shares resources between forest ecosystems – we ask: in a time of extinction, what can we learn from these ancient, non-human teachers that center collectivity, cooperation and curiosity?

Performed by Stacy Lynn Smith, Shannon Yu, Vicky Shick, EmmaGrace Skove-Epes, with Mor Mendel and Nora Alami in spirit. Sound design by Shamar Watt.

Glenn Potter-Takata’s latest work investigates the material conditions of postindustrial life through the lens of Buddhist phenomenology. Examining a relationship between our perceived reality and the materials that populate it, a junk drawer of the mind is full of old iPhones with countless iterations of our guardian Bodhisattva left on read.

Performed by Akane Little, Shamar Watt, evan ray suzuki, and Glenn Potter-Takata