VEIL: TWO SISTERS
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“a poem”
—Sally Silvers, choreographer
“beautiful. your show was fantastic! what a journey”
—Melvin McCray, filmmaker, professor at Columbia University
VEIL: Two Sisters, a multimedia performance project, reveals two sisters lured into a link between the earthly and heavenly realms. The sisters’ dream of connection becomes an enchanting poem within layered video imagery and as they are offered guidance by a shifting chorus of three women.
Inspired by the Celtic notion of ‘thin places’, where heaven and earth meet, the project is continuing its development. Tibet House US presented VEIL last year, 2023, as a projection of a performance and incorporated live performers. The ending ritual invited audience onstage, while a series of community workshops exploring a theme of forgiveness was offered with the project.
With a 2024 spring residency at New Dance Alliance, the project is being further explored with moving fabric and multiple projectors.