ABSTRACT
Slow illumination of stage covered on ground with real or synthetic ice, and with real icicles dripping from stage lights. Twelve dancers/performers on ladders just below lights. Dancers improvise on ladders, tasting melting ice, sliding and climbing up and down the ladder. Performers are absorbed by these tasks, moving silently, without looking at one another. Music is George Winston’s “December,” but the dancers are not moving “to” it. It is rather in the landscape around them. This “view” lasts about five minutes. Then darkness.
