Coriolis Dance What is Home an Obscure Kingdom an Opera Buffa It’s You Always You (2018)

What is Home an Obscure Kingdom an Opera Buffa It’s You Always You is an immersive evening-length event that inhabits a central question: what is belonging? In our time, and in Seattle specifically, this question holds a complicated response that is both intuitive and pragmatic, psychological and highly environmental. Absurdly imaginary, ridiculously ornate, What is Home creates a container for true pathos towards the vital human experience of feeling at home.

Presented by: Northwest Film Forum - Seattle WA - July 2018

Choreography/Direction: Christin Call

Produced by: Coriolis Dance

Performance: Stacy Brenner, Elby Brosch, Daniel Christensen, Madeleine Gregor, Lauren Hlubny, Ana Puzycki, Melissa Sanderson

Script: written by Christen Call with devised elements from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shew, and King Henry

Music: arrangement by Christin Call from works by Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Henry Bishop, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Julia Wolfe, Daphne Oram, Stuart Dempster, Bewster Higley, Al Brundage

Photos: Bret Doss, design: Christin Call

SeattleDances review

“If one can imagine a spectrum between abstraction and narrative dance, What Is Home consistently defied categorization on that continuum. In the mainstage performance, five dancers again utilized their beautiful balletic lines, rich with expansive arabesques and rotated legwork.“ Full article

Philippa Myler, August 2018