Vermont Performance Lab

Through a series of activities, VPL will work with Greenfield, MA artist, Sara Smith, to prepare her newest performance work "Florence Rice Hitchcock and the Theory of the Soft Earth" (FRH) for touring. FRH is a multimedia performance that combines dance with animation and mock documentary to explore ideas of interconnectedness and indeterminacy through the story of Florence Rice Hitchcock, a nineteenth-century geologist who has visions of twentieth-century science. Activity will ready the work for touring by identifying and engaging presenters in the New England region, developing related humanities and engagement activities, and showing the final work at VPL’s July 2017 Open Lab.