“Metal Skeletons and Lost Lands” is an interactive immersive installation involving live dance, song and projected time-lapse films.

The work explored an emotive psychological response to growing up in a polluted environment and questioning the contradiction of home being both a place of comfort and riddled with potential public health concerns. In the very simplistic sense, the work is a coming of age story, where the viewers are positioned as the protagonist and the performers function as the protagonist’s internal dialogue. The work pulls on nostalgic themes of American folkloric storytelling and horror-film inspired Victorian set and costume design. The scene is cinematic, yet the installation theatrics are non-linear and provided as a choose-your-own-adventure movement play.

Credits:

photography by: Chelsea Shilling

Technical Director: Justin Botz

Music: Darkest Wonder

Performance guide: Kellen Walker

Dancers: Tee Mayo, Rachel Nadler, Danielle Gilmore, Melissa Pillarella

Singers: Sid Branca, Lucia Mier-y-Teran Romero*

Storytellers: Sid Branca, Daniel Scott Parker, Lucia Mier-y-Teran Romero, Julynn Wilderson. 

Letterpress Printing: Jillian Bruschera

Carpentry: Peter Reese

Prop Assistance: Brent Koehn