The Shallow Sky (2022)

The Shallow Sky is a work for stage and screen that includes video vignettes and texts created with Fred Schmalz in and around Las Vegas. In the piece, we journey through gypsum tailings, wetlands, planned communities, abandoned railroad tunnels, and the aging ballroom of a fraternal order as an allegory to examine the impacts of human attempts at environmental control. Music underscoring by ensemble Eighth Blackbird.

The work was commissioned by Rogers Arts Foundation, produced during a residency at the Rogers Arts Loft, and shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2022.