Flight

performance details

Dates/Time:

October 23&24, 7:30 p.m.

October 25, 2 p.m.

Venable Hall

375 Church Street

North Adams, MA 01247413-662-5320 
mosaic@mcla.edu

performance information

FLIGHT is part of a trilogy (with GRAVITY and BALANCE) written by Robyn Hunt, conceived by Steve Pearson. Long before Amelia Earhart, courageous women were taking to the sky, against all odds and obstacles. But World War I—“the war to end all wars—“ and many other political and cultural seismic shifts obscured and, in most cases, erased their achievements. FLIGHT remembers particularly Harriet Quimby, Raymonde de la Roche, Bessie Coleman, Katherine Stinson, Blanche Stuart Scott, and Matilde Moissant, although there were many, many others. The pioneering women in the cinema appear as well, most notably Alise Guy-Blache, whom many credit with being the first person to make a narrative film. Many of these women have been forgotten. FLIGHT tells some of their stories. Nishihara Wakana reminds us in JAPAN AT WAR: An Oral History (Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook): “What I’ve done, though—it’s only because the dead are mute. They cannot speak. The living must act with energy for them.”  

This performance of Flight is a collaboration between P3/East, MOSAIC, and MCLA Theatre. Performances will be held in Venable Hall on the MCLA campus on October 23-25 starting at time tbd

Pacific Performance Project/East was founded in 1994 by Robyn Hunt and Steve Pearson in response to a growing dialogue about culture and theatre and the unique influences they experienced living on the Pacific Rim. P3 became their research wing, a studio in which they could explore and experiment with new ways to integrate the mind and the body in performance. Now based on Cape Cod, Pacific Performance Project/East creates productions which employ a synthesis of their work with Tadashi Suzuki and Shogo Ohta in Japan, and their own work in modern dance, circus technique, silent narrative and a fresh response to Stanislavksi's ideas.