Pillars of Salt

LEIMAY Fellows Showcase

The People Movers

LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES 2015: SOAK

Imagine Orpheus: the musical genius, the brave, beautiful hero, whose epic journey ended in grief and despair because of one backwards glance.

Image Lot’s wife: fleeing from terrors of Sodom and Gomorrah, also unable to resist one backwards glance at the home she was abandoning forever, hardened to salt and stripped of her humanity as punishment.

Pillars of Salt is the imagined meeting of these tragic figures. Their lives irrevocably changed because of their longing for the past, Orpheus and Lot’s Wide address their grief and failure. The two look for what they have lost in each other and find it as impossible to hold onto as salt between their fingers.

Object Identifier

AMP.PRG.2015.3000.5

ID number

3000.5

Year Created

2015

Date Created

20150603

Date Recorded

20150603

Performance dates

Array

Language

English

Curated Filters

Space / Location

Premiere Venue

CAVE Home Of LEIMAY
6/3-4/2015
58 Grand St - Brooklyn, New York, NY

Premiere Venue specific dates

      Performers: Kate Ladenheim and Andrew Trego
      Music: Original Composition by Tara Rook

      LEIMAY Artistic Directors: Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya
      SOAK Managing Producer: Raul Zbengheci
      SOAK Production Stage Manager: Dina Paola Rodriguez
      LEIMAY Administrative Associates: Theresa Magario, Denise Shumei, José Rivera Jr.
      SOAK Technical Assistant: Sofiya Romendik
      Box Office: Joanna Stone, Naima Ramos, Charlotte Colmant

      This piece was created in part through The Field’s Subsidized Block Rental Re- hearsal Space Program, supported by the Lambent Foundation.

      SOAK is supported, in part, by The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. SOAK and LEIMAY Ludus Training are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Additional funding for LEIMAY’s presenting program is given by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.

      This piece was created in part through The Field’s Subsidized Block Rental Re- hearsal Space Program, supported by the Lambent Foundation.