In Sightline, six figures weave and skirt about one another, fleeting in and out of view as they move through clusters of suspended textile columns. The figures themselves, along with the figuration in artist Fraser Taylor's set and geometric garments from his HAXTON Studio, create a dynamic, dense terrain of marks and exchanges. Set to music by Baroque composer Marin Marais, this dance plays between 17th c. music and 21st c. design, and between cloaking and baring self. Together the combination of complex melodies, Taylor’s modern marks and shapes, and the dancers’ variously lush and angular motion in solo moments and play with others, create a full conversation. Like “Le Badinage”, one of the Marais pieces that translates to “the banter”, Sightline mirrors the fullness, the poignant and the banal, the exchanges of everyday life.

Choreographer Carrie Hanson notes, "In designing these various scenes and experiences of concealment, distance, and surprise for the viewer, I intended to draw attention to how we see and comprehend others in the world, when our view of them is usually a limited one. It is ultimately a work about empathy for others whose full story we cannot see, and bringing imagination and compassion to complete our perception of people."

PREMIERE: May 1-4, 2025 at The Ruth Page Center for the Arts