Black Merce

A solo performance in which the audience builds the score, sets the parameters for when the piece begins and ends, and learns about a dancer's life along the way.

In Black Merce the audience holds the controls. They create the score, decide the boundaries of the performance, and in the exchange come to know the performer's life as a dancer.

Performed at Joe's Movement Emporium (Mt. Rainier, MD), the Washington Ballet (Washington, DC), and the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia (Fairfax, VA).