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Cave Dogs live shadow performance, Liquid States, explores land and water as physical substance and metaphoric allusion. This work focuses on land and water use in its many physical states and cultural circumstances, narratives, histories, memories and journeys. The performance forms a collective narrative that addresses mankind’s complicated relationship to essential natural resources.
 
Liquid States, consists of innovative, large-scale shadow projections cast onto a screen from a variety of props, puppets, costumes and the human body. Shadows move in concert with projected video, animation, spoken narrative, and an original soundtrack. We create multiple, richly layered visual tableaus, and produce effects that conjure both the dreamlike quality of early experimental film and the humor of contemporary animation. It’s magical, like watching dreams cross into the conscious world. We teach trees to dance and whales to sing. Liquid States, is both abstract documentary and fictionalized realism. The show weaves together imagery and sounds to create a stimulating experience that documents, and celebrates important cultural voices, social identities and environmental perspectives.

Reykjavik Fringe 2019