Goat Island (USA)  |  It's An Earthquake In My Heart 

 

"memories of the time ... contemplative spoken texts, complex choreography and chaotic theatricality" 

 

What is the difference between the present and the past? How can that difference be touched? What produces fear and how do we say 'I am not afraid?' How do we dance? Why do we sing? How do we know about death? How do we learn to live, and to love the world? 

In a narrow performance space, angled askew and surrounded by audience, It's An Earthquake In My Heart, circles around an unnamed disaster that is both historical and personal - memories of the time before it, enactments of its occurrence, reconstructions in its aftermath. In extended sequences of contemplative spoken texts, complex choreography and chaotic theatricality, the group presents a singular, highly structured, contemporary performance experience. The performance assembles material generated from the study of cloud formations, traffic patterns, car accidents, the circulatory system, research into historical events involving the human hand - from the American Civil War to the present - and ideas of the chase, concealed motors, imitation and childhood.