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“In the tradition of the ‘total work,’ Fain’s and Kocik’s somatic opera - one I would argue approaches the scale and virtuosity of a Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, or Robert Ashley - seems something both old and new for poetry. A return to to things Greek – a Dionysian atmosphere redolent with 60s theatre and intermedia performance." 
Thom Donovan, Art Critic


E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E is an operatic, town hall epic that proposes, with Thomas Paine and Martin Luther King, money as public property. Created by choreographer Daria Faïn and poet Robert Kocik, in collaboration with composer Katherine Young, vocalist Samita Sinha and the Commons Choir, E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E was developed by researching the sonic and connotative power of language (especially phonemes, the smallest sound units of language) and suggesting the ways in which these sounds could heal our current economic and ecological crises. Drawing on phenomena as diverse as the choral ode, algorithmic procedure, dead languages, the endocrine system, triple bottom line accounting, innate awareness and the town hall meeting, 27 dancers, singers and actors carry out a cosmogenetic redo as they treat our current inequity crisis with reparative tones and intentions with the body as horn of plenty.

The performers of E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E oscillate between solo performance and choral responses either choreographed in formal geometry or in compelling and high-energy group movements. At other moments, simple standing postures of the performers allow the audience to be absorbed in the harmony of the singing.

Thanks to the generosity of New York Live Arts (and a scheduling miracle...) we are pleased to announce that E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E was re-scheduled for February 28-March 2, 2013! 
 

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E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E is produced by The Prosodic Body and the members of the Commons Choir, commissioned by New York Live Arts and made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.  Additional support is given by contributors to The Dance Theater Workshop Commissioning Fund at New York Live Arts. Development support was provided by series of residencies including Movement Research AIR supported by The Jerome Foundation, The Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund and The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency (2008-2010), LMCC SWING SPACE (2009-2010), The Field Artist Residency program supported by Lambent Foundation (2011). Funds have also been provided by the James Robison Foundation. Production support has been provided by Dance New Amsterdam (2012).

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