mark it in pencil
Premiered March 2018
New York Live Arts
Direction: Hannah Cullen
Performed by Avery-Jai Andrews, Ramiro Batista, Hannah Cullen, Fiona Jarvis, Kaya Jarvis, Liam Mackenzie, Mieke Matteson, Josiah Pannell, Nyah Raposo, Pilot Roberts, Adriana Santos, Beatrice White
Lighting Design: Christopher Thielking
Original Score: Shirish Sarkar
Production Management: popboompow/David Taylor
Mark it in Pencil is an evening length work directed, written and choreographed by Hannah Cullen in collaboration with the cullen+them company and featuring original text and movement by Young Dance Collective. The show, running 90 minutes with no intermission, integrates spoken word, narrative dialogue and movement to address themes around unity and division. Mark it in Pencil reminds us that our view of the other does not have to be rigid and that communication can be grounded in listening. When we allow ourselves to write in pencil, we forgo a permanence that gives us permission to erase and write it all over again.