The Movement Lab presents: the Artificial environments / environmental Intelligence Festival
The Ae/eI Festival features work-in-progress installations and performances in the Movement Lab every day during the week of February 21-28, all of which are free and open to the public. It is guided by the question, what happens when we close the loop on the constructed binary of nature and technology?
Artificial environments / environmental Intelligence Festival Night 8:
Dreaming Animals
Presented as a companion piece to The Blue Zone, to close out the Ae/eI Festival with an evening at sea.
Dreaming Animals created by Sophie Craig
Wednesday, February 28th | 7:30pm
In a small bedroom impossibly close to the shore, two siblings pass stories back and forth to help each other sleep. They spin tales of grief without death and communication without language—tales that inevitably invite the surrounding sea inside, setting the children adrift on their twin beds, and luring a strange visitor into their lives. Told across four nights, Dreaming Animals is both a short dramatic piece and an experiment in widening our definition of humanity.
Doors open at 7:00 PM and showing begins at 7:30 PM.
Capacity in the lab is capped at 40 audience members. Attendees who have RSVP'd before the event will have priority, and admission will be determined on a first come first serve basis on arrival. If you RSVP before the event but you arrive late, we reserve the right to give your spot to someone on the waitlist.
Attendees who have not RSVP'd will be put on a standby waitlist if they arrive in-person before the event.
Sophie Craig (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based theater artist. She has worn many hats as executive director of The Elif Collective, working as a dramaturg, director, writer, stage manager, producer, and costume designer. She has worked as a dramaturg with the Columbia School of the Arts, translated theater at the Columbia Global Center in Paris, and taught playwriting at the Harbor School alongside NYC-based theater company Superhero Clubhouse. She frequently collaborates with French translator-director Philomène Cheynet, with whom she has returned twice to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a performer.