2016 · Dance – stage work
What Do I Remember
Wei-Shan Lai (Wei-Shan Lai & Dancers)
A multidisciplinary dance-theatre work about loss and how the brain changes during healing, combining dance, text, projected brain-cell imagery and neuroscience research. The cast included a dancer who uses a wheelchair, and Ben composed the score.
- Premiere
- 2016-08-25
- Venue
- Z Below (Z Space)
- Where
- San Francisco, CA
- Performances
- Aug 25-27, 2016 at 8pm and Aug 28, 2016 at 5pm, Z Below, 470 Florida St.
- Credits
- Conception & direction: Wei-Shan Lai. Composer: Ben Juodvalkis. Neuroscience collaborator: Dr. Yu-Wei Wu (Stanford University). Media design: Olivia Ting. Scenic design: Chih-Wei G.V. Chang. Lighting design: Heather Basarab. Cinematography: Joel Wanek. Dancers: Yuko Monden, Kiplinn Sagmiller, Dwayne Scheuneman, David James Silpa (announced cast). The company site also lists Liane Burns, Lynn Huang, Terumi Oneda. A fiscally sponsored project of Dancers' Group.
Press
“The Brain changes itself all the time. This process underlies our ability to learn and adapt.”
Elsewhere
- What Do I Remember — Wei-Shan Lai & Dancers, 2016-08-25