Shiny Angles in Angular Time, 2018, Performance Works NW, Portland, OR

photographs: Linda Austin

Shiny Angles in Angular Time, 2018, Chocolate Factory Theater, Queens, NY

photograph: Brian Rogers

Shiny Angles in Angular Time, 2018, Chocolate Factory Theater, Queens, NY

photographs: ©Paula Court

Shiny Angles in Angular Time — a full-length solo danced by Renée Archibald, made in collaboration with choreographer Melinda Ring—is a dialogue with seen and unseen forces.

The audience is seated at one end of a transparent room within a room, for this work in four reciprocal parts. In each part, in different ways, the performer is in dialogue with the room (the main seen force).

Part two is a fanciful minimalistic reexamination of some of the basic rules of theatrical perspective in which Archibald and Ring ask “how can I act on the space and can the space in turn act upon me?”

If part two is a kind of laboratory, part four is its findings put into action. It is an understatedly virtuosic choreography—that acts to describe shifting parameters, again, in relationship to the volume of the room. Danced without musical accompaniment, the work still attends exquisitely to musicality, as it also attempts to describe the elusive “angular time”.

Parts one and three utilize an inflatable rectangular object and projected video.

April 2018, Chocolate Factory Theater, Queens, NY
October 2018, Performance Works NW, Portland, OR

Choreography, Setting and Video: Melinda Ring and Renée Archibald
Performer: Renée Archibald
Lighting: Paul Clay
Costumes: Melinda Ring
Production Management: Lillie De

Funding Credits

video element, Shiny Angles in Angular Time, 2018