Michael Estanich’s A Place At The Edge Of The World To Call Our Own is inspired by elegant passages from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and Estanich’s own personal reflections on solitude and quiet. The work for nine dancers drifts gently among an inverted world—supported by an installation that includes a sky of lavender, a beautiful while Marley floor, and projections of wispy cloud formations, shooting stars, and meteor showers. Consisting of twenty plus short vignettes, A Place At The Edge Of The World To Call Our Own contemplates, through sweeping movement phrases and deliciously weighted partnering, a world where solitude supports companionship and privacy fuels the heart.
Along with celebrated works The Lonely Visitors (2010) and It’s About Love Again This Year (2015), A Place At The Edge Of The World To Call Our Own concludes a multi-year investigation surrounding questions of love, melancholy, and solitude. Serving as a final meditation, A Place At The Edge Of The World To Call Our Own calls up images of weightlessness, cosmic space, and open fields to promote peace in the world, acceptance in the heart, and resolution with one’s memories.
The cast includes Daiva Bhandari, Stacy DeMorrow, Michael Estanich, Erika Farkvam, Corinne Imberski, Danielle Gilmore, Michael O’Neill, Melanie Rockwell and Lucy Vurusic Riner. With original text by Estanich and a sound score of works that includes artists Elivium, Hilder Guddnadottier and Bombino, the 60-minute dance work is organized by a series of chapters that are linked loosely together to reveal the large themes at the center of the work.
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