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Brandon Boan
TILDE

first performed on September 29, 2020
Mission Street Arts
performed twice in 2020

THE 181 (BRANDON BOAN, ABBY DONOVAN, TOM HUGHES, JASON RHODES)

Brittany De Nigris, Aaron K. Hoffer, Mike Marks, Phil McGaughy, Joe Netta, Charlotte Thurman, Jacob Zimmerman

Bend, OR / Eugene, OR / Old Fort, NC
adonovan@udel.edu
www.abbydonovan.com

TILDE
THE 181 (BRANDON BOAN, ABBY DONOVAN, TOM HUGHES, JASON RHODES)

Q: What did you do in the darkness?

A: We breathed and made some light.

(On that day at twilight a parade of sorts set out from the edge of town)

Performer A was building castles out of sand while Performer B tried to approximate the flavor of blackberry jam by ringing a bell. Performer C wanted to be a lighthouse for the mesa waves and Performer D cracked multiple nuts looking for the dusk within. Performer E collected amplified echoes from the stars and used them to push a land sail up and down through the dusty hills to where Performers F and G had donned their helmets and set up a teeter totter—a reminiscing rehearsal of how to play ping pong through a mirror. SEE/SAW is about the sound of it, and when you meet the highway you take a right.