Deganit Shemy & Company
2 kilos of sea

2 kilos of sea is a site-specific work originally created and performed in July 2010 at the John Street United Methodist Church in downtown Manhattan. There, outdoor statues and concrete edifices created pathways and spatial limitations that shaped the context and meaning of interactions among six dancers.

Now, in its theatrical premiere, 2 kilos of sea is retrofitted for the Howard Gilman Performance Space at BAC. A cement landscape backdrop echoes the church courtyard, and sacred structures are recast as raw construction site set elements, through which the stage is transformed into a world of avenues and obstacles. Here, the external drama of the stage and the inner lives of the characters overlap—a new set of boundaries leading to transient associations and fragmented narratives about the fragility of time, relationships, and expectation.

“2 kilos of sea is itself a compressed chunk of layers–emotional, psychological, textural”
– The New York Times

VIDEO PREVIEW
Deganit Shemy & Company performing 2 kilos of sea at the John Street United Methodist Church, July 2010.