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  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Performance view at The Place, Photographer: Dan Weill

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Performance view at The Place, Photographer: Dan Weill

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Performance view at The Place, Photographer: Dan Weill

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Performance view at The Place, Photographer: Dan Weill

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Performance view at The Place, Photographer: Dan Weill

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Performance view at The Place, Photographer: Dan Weill

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Performance view at The Place, Photographer: Dan Weill

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Performance view at The Place, Photographer: Dan Weill

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Performance view at The Place, Photographer: Dan Weill

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Performance view at The Place, Photographer: Dan Weill

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Performance view at The Place, Photographer: Dan Weill

  • Children for or against the Destruction of Birds

  • Children for or against the Destruction of Birds
    Score for Composer II, Pencil on layered vellum (2018), 59 x 42 cm, Photo: Trevor Good

  • Children for or against the Destruction of Birds
    Score for Composer I, Pencil on layered vellum (2018), 59 x 42 cm, Photo: Trevor Good

  • Children for or against the Destruction of Birds
    Score for Composer III, Photographer: Trevor Good

  • Children for or against the Destruction of Birds
    Score for Performer I, II & III (2018), Pencil on layered vellum, 59 x 42 cm, Photo: Trevor Good

  • Children for or against the Destruction of Birds
    Score for Performer I, I-IV (2018), Pencil on layered vellum, 59 x 42 cm, Photo: Trevor Good

  • Children for or against the Destruction of Birds
    Score for Performer II, IV-VII (2018), Pencil on layered vellum, 59 x 42 cm, Photo: Trevor Good

  • Children for or against the Destruction of Birds
    Score for Performer III, VII-I (2018), Pencil on layered vellum, 59 x 42 cm, Photo: Trevor Good

  • Children for or against the Destruction of Birds
    Score for Audience, Composer, & Performers I-III (2018), Pencil on layered vellum, 59 x 42 cm, Photo: Trevor Good

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Score for Performer I, II & III (2018), Pencil on layered vellum, 59 x 42 cm, Photo: Trevor Good

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Score for Performer I, I-IV (2018), Pencil on layered vellum, 59 x 42 cm, Photo: Trevor Good

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Score for Performer II, IV-VII (2018), Pencil on layered vellum, 59 x 42 cm, Photo: Trevor Good

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Score for Performer III, VII-I (2018), Pencil on layered vellum, 59 x 42 cm, Photo: Trevor Good

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Score for Audience, Composer, & Performers I-III (2018), Pencil on layered vellum, 59 x 42 cm, Photo: Trevor Good

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Score for Composer I, Pencil on layered vellum (2018), 59 x 42 cm, Photo: Trevor Good

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Score for Composer II, Pencil on layered vellum (2018), 59 x 42 cm, Photo: Trevor Good

  • Tether for an Engagement

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Installation view at Centrum, Photographer: Mareike Spendel

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Installation view at Centrum, Photographer: Mareike Spendel

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Installation view at Centrum, Photographer: Mareike Spendel

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Installation view at Centrum, Photographer: Mareike Spendel

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Installation view at Centrum, Photographer: Mareike Spendel

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Installation view at Centrum, Photographer: Mareike Spendel

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Installation view at Centrum, Photographer: Mareike Spendel

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Installation view at Centrum, Photographer: Mareike Spendel

  • The Nine Returns to the One
    Installation view at Centrum, Photographer: Mareike Spendel

  • Children for or Against the Destruction of Birds

  • Children for or Against the Destruction of Birds

  • Children for or Against the Destruction of Birds

  • Children for or Against the Destruction of Birds

  • Children for or Against the Destruction of Birds

  • Children for or Against the Destruction of Birds

  • Children for or Against the Destruction of Birds

  • Children for or Against the Destruction of Birds

  • Children for or Against the Destruction of Birds

  • Children for or Against the Destruction of Birds

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The Nine Returns to the One

2018

The Nine Returns to the One consists of three scores, one for each performer, and a separate score for guests. The performers “flock” throughout the space in a reference to the murmuration of sparrows. Guests are invited to follow a graphic notation marked on the floor to enter and exit the frame of the performance. They are encouraged to engage with their surroundings and observe the decision-making process of themselves as well as the other participants.

The scores are based upon the Nine Palaces, a Chinese martial arts system for practicing Baguazhang, a circular sequence of movements for managing multiple opponents at once. The accompanying soundtrack, Children for or against the Destruction of Birds, comprised of slowed-down sparrow calls, functions as a musical translation of the original drawings.

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