Edifice: Breaking Walls

what walls us in?

May 2017 | happy valley LAFAYETTE

edifice: breaking walls

This themed work is a special behind-the scene look at our first Art Moves Project.

Edifice: Breaking Walls conceived by Yukie, Christy and Lissa is brought to life by No Strings Attached Dance Company directed by Lissa Resnick in collaboration with Lafayette artist and Public Art Committee member, Marcia Barrow Taylor. This work asks: “What walls us in?” “What walls within us could be broken or deconstructed?”

Drawing inspiration from Marcia’s four multidimensional panels entitled Witness Cycle, intricately created through slow repetitive gestures and variations on the color black, Lissa uses a ballet-based contemporary ensemble to study walls between individuals and our own internal barriers.

Breaking Walls includes an audience interactive writing element, leaving behind a physical, literary footprint of the performance installation.

about the artists

Marcia Barrow Taylor

Marcia Barrow Taylor is a San Francisco Bay Area painter and fiber artist with a passion for knitting and calligraphy. Her work is process-based, especially slow repetitive gestures. Marcia’s repetitive knitting to create objects and her use of paper and other materials to construct forms explores the layers that exist inside and outside of us.

NO STRINGS ATTACHED DANCE COMPANY

Directed by Lissa Resnick, a Harkness award-winning choreographer, the company was founded in Los Angeles and expanded to the SF Bay Area in 2013. Lissa links ballet technique with contemporary dance and theater. The company’s work has been featured throughout California including at ODC PUSHfest, where they received the 2018 Audience Choice Award, Djerassi’s Women Ballet Residency Program, Z Space, sjDANCEco, North Hollywood’s El Portal Theater, and named LA Weekly’s “Top Five Dance Shows This Week.”