A Period of Animate Existence (2017)
Echoing the character and pacing of a 19th-century symphony, A Period of Animate Existence weaves together perspectives of children, elders, and machines in five staged movements or “hallucinatory visions.” Like a symphony, the movements are unrelated narratively, yet they complement each other sequentially in mood, tempo, and texture to produce a cumulative effect. A Period of Animate Existence premiered at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania in September 2017, as part of the 2017 Fringe Festival presented by FringeArts.