Moving Walls is an experimental dance that examines human experience in relation to architecture. Combining movement with sculpture, animation, and sound, the piece is a collaborative project that questions concepts of stability. Three performers construct and deconstruct the space around them with wheels, ropes, pulleys, hooks, and hinges. In turn, they are influenced by their shifting surroundings.
Audience members are invited to explore their own unique perspectives of Moving Walls by passing freely throughout different rooms of The Peale Center. The Peale’s rich and complex history of preservation, including former exhibitions on taxidermy and the building’s own physical restoration, provides a visual and conceptual framework for the performance.
Noa Heyne (sculpture) Sidney Pink (drawing in performance), Sarah Smith (dance), Matthew Williams (movement), and Khristian Weeks (sound).
Moving Walls is made possible through the support of the MICA LAB Award.