STATERA - Belle Spirale (30 min)

World Premiere: March 21, 2025

Choreography:  Fernando Hernando Magadan in collaboration with the artist of Belle Spirale.

Music: New composition by Ben Waters

Lighting Design: Victoria Hunter Bell

Set Design: Sylvain Senez & Fernando Hernando Magadan

Set construction: Sylvain Senez

Stage Manager: Neil Griffith

Performers: Alexis Fletcher, Ariana Barr, Justin Rapaport, Juan Duarte, Will Jessup, Brenna Metzmeier, Sophia Makarenko.

STATERA (Latin for balance) is inspired by the unsettling feelings many of us experience regarding the ongoing and increasing deterioration of the global environment. It invites a sense of reflection and urgency.

As we face an uncertain future, we are confronted, possibly more than ever before, with our own fragile and fleeting nature in a world full of uncontrollable forces of immense magnitude.

Both as a community as well as individuals, we are forced to reflect on our way of life, our uncertain future and our challenged sense of safety.

Through the strength of the dancing body, STATERA navigates the frail line between feeling safe and endangered, the feeling of urgency and vulnerability, the resilience to nurture hope, and the notion of time as we are confronted with our inherent ephemeral nature.

— Fernando Hernando Magadan