Threads And Thresholds, 2014 - 2015
Threads and Thresholds began in the spring of 2014 with an idea between Hannah Dennison and Olivia Gay for an art installation in the historic Kent Museum, Calais, Vermont using the theme of shared threads of history and life’s thresholds as its direction and frame. It evolved into a site-specific dance/theater installation in this unusual, stunning building created by choreographer/director Hannah Dennison, visual artist Leslie Anderson, and composer David Severance.
Produced by Cradle to Grave Arts in partnership with the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation which owns and maintains the Kent Museum, it was funded by The Fountain Fund (the Vermont Community Foundation), Morris and Bessie Altman Foundation, Clean Yield , Amy Tarrant Foundation, Tugley Wood Foundation, and many generous individual donors. This six-day installation/performance ran from June 16 to June 21, 2015 each day from 2-8pm with a cast of twenty performers.
The Cast and Collaborators
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Hannah Dennison
Choreographer/Director
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Leslie Anderson
Visual Artist
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David Severance
Composer
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Andy Christiansen
Ensemble
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Coulter Cluett
Ensemble
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Erin Duffee
Ensemble
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Ashley Heaney
Ensemble
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Sofia Hirsch
Ensemble
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Noah Marconi
Ensemble
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Carolyn McCarthy
Ensemble
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Mollie Morgan
Ensemble
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Mia Pinheiro
Ensemble
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Elizabeth Reid
Ensemble
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Daniel Senning
Ensemble
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Aislynn Tabor
Ensemble
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Avi Waring
Ensemble
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Bridget Wheeler
Ensemble
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Lida Winfield
Ensemble
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Willow Wonder
Ensemble
Portraits and Scene Photography by Emily Boedecker
Audience Reactions
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Everything was so visually delicious! The Kent, the colors, the evening sun, the movement through the building, absolutely stunning!
S. Morse
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This piece was spectacular. It continues to reverberate in my memory.
M. Sherman
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It was for me such a fascinating, utterly unique and transporting piece.
S. Lahar
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All I understand about early love was caught by you on the box, between the walls, and behind the hand-drawn just-so chalk line.
S. Green
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We all agreed there was something “tender” about it all.
L. Provost
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I'm flooded with calls from friends and neighbors who have seen your work and loved it.
N. Emlen
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"Threads and Thresholds," performed in the Kent Museum in Calais, was up close and personal (immersive) and contained one of the most erotic choreographies I had ever seen, a highly stylized heartbreaking courtship between two dancers, on a bench. Really, I think of it all the time. I often am in Kent Corner and never am there without thinking of that particular piece.
H. Norman
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The music - the long, sustained notes, the liquidity of the phrases. The perfect pile of feathers offset by the busy wallpaper, a beautiful understatement. I loved that there was no ribbon in the typewriter, the blank words formed and pondered, her lovely long neck arched over the work. I was lifted up and floating through your world, touching down and floating up, and being touched.
O. Gay
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I got goosebumps when I crossed the initial threshold into the first room and almost wanted to cry and I don't know why…Time past in the spaces and the daffodils, time frozen in photos, timepieces and old suitcases. The drifting of music and sounds from other rooms was evocative and enticing.
D. Tod
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The tallest performer came to each person who bent back to him, placed their neck in his hands and he gently bore them to the ground, crossing some kind of threshold.
M. Wisniewski
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I wept in the ballroom. Once again you have reached deep into being human and pulled out astonishing quirky real life gems and pearls and threaded them to the viewer.
P. Fontaine