What Keeps You Going?
Through an organic blend of dance, storytelling, live music, and video, What Keeps You Going? is an intimate experience that invites audiences to immerse themselves in performances on multiple levels of the cell’s historic townhouse. What Keeps You Going? explores what it means to live in the present moment, versus in a memory of the past, or the fantasy of the future as the artists of HOLDTIGHT delve into moments of chaos, joy, grief, isolation, belonging, and hope.
Premiere dates: September 15-Oct. 2nd, 2021
Premiere location: the cell theatre, New York City
Collaborators/cast credits:
Direction & Concept by Gwendolyn Gussman
Choreography & Creation by Gwendolyn Gussman in collaboration with Performing Artists: Nico Gonzales, Emily Haughton, Dervla Carey-Jones, Xenia Mansour & Johnny Butler
Music & Sound Design by Johnny Butler
Scenography by Anna Driftmier (assisted by Laura Pressler)
Video Design & Production Managing by Alex Taylor
Lighting Design by Aja M. Jackson
Created & produced through Artist-in-Residence program at Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre.
Photos by Walter Wlodarczyk
“Viscerally and aggressively engages the senses – which is intensified by the intimate and immersive nature of the performance – turning the experience of watching the show into a vital one.”
— Adrian Dimanlig, Viewpoints
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