The Lonely Visitors

The Lonely Visitors is an investigation of the musings, trials, and desires of the heart. A dance theatre work for 7 dancers, it explodes with powerful dancing and striking imagery that draws the audience member into its unique and delicate environment.

The Lonely Visitors, a dance theatre piece combing movement, music, and text, is structured like a poem—a series of images colliding and smashing together to reveal both the whimsical and perfidious nature of the heart. The collection of 30 short episodes ponders the depths and desires that love holds over us—from the giddiness of a favorite song to the romantic idealism of melancholy to the hurt of a collapsed relationship. Some sections are but brief glances or tender grasps that reveal desire while others consume the stage with charged partnering and athletic dancing. The individual episodes are succinct meditations on what we hold dear.

The messy landscape of the heart is reflected in the environment created by 7 chairs that are constantly being rearranged by the dancers. Shifting focus and defining space, the chairs aid in revealing vulnerable images and fragile relationships. The chairs can be perceived as ‘home’—a place to return, to rest, to give in before the dancers embark on a new tenuous, elegiac, or ferocious experience.

In The Lonely Visitors, the eight dancers share stories—with the voice and body. Non-linear in nature, the stories take shape using the dancers in simple, honest, and profound ways to lead the audience on a journey through the imagination.

Shows are at the Chicago Arts District Gallery, Adelaide Stage…..1832 S. Halsted

$5 Fringe Button and $10 ticket
www.chicagofringe.org