A site-specific performance commissioned by MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Photo credit: Kevin Kenneflick
Credits
Conceived, directed, choreographed and written by Martha Bowers
Assistant to Martha Bowers: Leigh Fagin
Composer and Musical Director: Philip Hamilton
Set Design and Construction: Ed King
Production Technical Director: Larry Smallwood
Dance /Theatre/Etcetera Dancers: Bethany Formica and Scot Willingham
Additional Dancers: from Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and Williams College
Guest Artists: Lesley Farlow, Judith Sloan
Dream Life Choir: local community members
Sprague Ladies: Sprague Electric Company retirees
Community Partners/Performers: Drury Drama Team, Greylock Theatre Project
With Support from: Joe Thompson, Founding Director of MASS MoCA and Jonathan Secor, MASS MoCA Director of Performing Arts. The Dream Life of Bricks was made possible with major support from the Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund.
“The title of the show stems from Bowers’ vision that the bricks in the buildings have dreamed various dreams over their 125 years, those dreams now changing once again as they witness art and culture instead of machines and mill workers. And that vision includes the hope that the barriers between workers and company owners, as well as between professional and amateur performers, are breaking down.”
– Joe Manning, Mornings on Maple Street
Archive/Press
“A Youth Perspective: ‘The Dream Life of Bricks'” – iBerkshires.com (read more)
“Dreaming Along With The Bricks” – morningsonmaplestreet.com (read more)
“On MASS MoCA’s ‘Dream Life of Bricks'” – iberkshires.com (read more)