Sapience I-X “Human Story”

Created by Cori Kresge, 2010

Costumes by Cori Kresge and performers
Music by Jeremy Tressler
Performed by Lauren Ferguson, Erin Kohout, Cori Kresge, Michael Wiener, Amber Morgan, Mace Pearlman, Joanna Szkop, Emily Vetsch, and Tim Ward

Sapience I-X projects the human story into a foreboding dystopia in which the air is unbreathable and no other animal species remain. Thus, humans have nothing against which to measure their own humanity and must find new ways to define themselves collectively and individually. Performers wear military gas masks, ornately decorated with feathers, fur and jewels, transformed from a wartime survival tool into externalized expressions of personality and animality.

Chapters of Sapience I-X “Human Story” were performed at the Chelsea Art Museum, Judson Memorial Church, CPR Brooklyn, the Highline, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, and the 92nd St Y.

Photos by Jeremy Tressler