Set and Lighting design by Marcus McShane. This work began with a collaboration between Mascall Dance (Vancouver) and Footnote Dance (Wellington). The Impossible Has Already Happened is a visually intense exploration of how we’re responding to rising sea levels, and of all the ways that humans work with water. With a set made of dumpster-dived materials, beach flotsam, and rescued yacht sails that the cast have to construct anew each night into a shelter that they’re then flown inside of, and which is lit by lamps encased in melting ice, (the water from which begins to innundate the stage) this was a work that went through nearly two years of technical workshopping before all the variables were under control, and it’s still a wildly unpredictable work, it’s unpredictability reflecting the increasing wildness of our current climate. I do love to challenge performers with variables that are far outside of their comfort zones, but this dance work is different every night, to a ridiculous level.
