Liturgy|Order|Bridge is a participatory dance ritual that fuses sacred traditions with
secular performance modalities to make porous the border between “audience” and “performance.”
LITURGY
lit·ur·gy/ˈlidərjē /noun
- a form or formulary according to which public religious worship, especially Christian worship, is conducted.
- a customary repertoire of ideas, phrases, or observances
- ritual
ORDER
or·der/ˈôrdər/noun
- the disposition of things following one after another, as in space or time; succession or sequence.
- a body or society of persons living by common consent under the same religious, moral, or social regulations.
BRIDGE
bridge/brij/noun
- a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, obstacle.
- a connecting, transitional, or intermediate route or phase between two adjacent elements, activities, conditions, etc.
“Liturgy|Order|Bridge” has been developed with support from Creative Capital, and from the New England Foundation for the Arts’ New Work New England program (whose support is made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Rescue Plan, Seedlings Foundation, the Fund for the Arts at NEFA, and individual donors). “Liturgy|Order|Bridge” was also incubated during a Pillow Lab Residency at Jacob’s Pillow and is co-commissioned by the Prior Performing Arts Center at the College of the Holy Cross.
