Islands – golden hour

Islands is a 15 minute rope piece by the company Golden Hour,
comprised of Natalie Oleinik and Marina Mezzogiorno-Brown.

Hg – mercury – named after the Roman god Mercury, known for speed and mobility.

Ar – argon – From the Greek ἀργόν meaning lazy or inactive.

Ne – neon – from the Greek ‘neos’ or ‘new’.

Xe – xenon – this colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas get its name from the Greek word ξένον xénon meaning ‘foreign(er)’, ‘strange(r)’, or ‘guest’.

Kr – kypton – from Ancient Greek: κρυπτός, ‘the hidden one’.

These elements form fluorescent light.

They sound just like us.
Watch us glow.

Control. –

By positioning three fluorescent lights
we, the two people on stage,
control how we are seen.

We design spaces to inhabit by moving
three lines, lines of light.

These lights throw bodies and volumes
into hard clarity and
harder shadow.

The more clearly we see one thing,
the less clearly we see the others.

Motion. –

Muscle memory defines
the unconscious pathways our
bodies take.
Repetition. Training. Trauma.
Emulation, mirroring, learning

Training, Olympic dreams, sparkles.
Sweat, veins, breath.
Impressions, fleeting.

In Islands we let our bodies
find their own pathways.
This way, we share who we are,
as in, what we have lived.