REPLICA: Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, Judith Sanchez Ruiz

 REPLICA is a collaborative performance piece by Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, and Judith Sanchez Ruiz that examines memory loss pattern recognition and perceptual faculties as they apply to the human body.  The piece employs sets, objects, lighting, video and still images to create the illusion of an expanded space and creates situations onstage that could not veritably exist, suggesting another dimension and landscape. Through creative use of video and built spaces, the performance appears to be transported to different locations just outside the audience’s sightline.

In 2007, MOCA collaborated with Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center on the Merce in Miami celebration of pioneering choreographer Merce Cunningham.  Among MOCA’s roles was to recommend then 24-year-old Daniel Arsham to Cunningham to create the sets for a new production to premiere in Miami.   Out of this experience, Arsham and former lead Cunningham dancer Jonah Bokaer formed a collaboration that resulted in the creation of REPLICA.  REPLICA will be performed at both MOCA and Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center in November. REPLICA choreography by Jonah Bokaer with Judith Sanchez Ruiz. Video by Jonah Bokaer. Set by Daniel Arsham. Original Commissioned Music: ARP/Alexis Georgopoulos.

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KünstlerInnen:  Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, Judith Sanchez Ruiz