”Still, The Sky” by Tom Pearson

Tom Pearson is an artist and poet who works in dance, theater, film, visual art, and multi-media. He is known for his original works for theater, including the long-running, off-Broadway immersive hits THEN SHE FELL and THE GRAND PARADISE and as a founder and co-artistic director of the New York City-based Third Rail Projects and Global Performance Studio. 

Heis the author of two books, THE SANDPIPER'S SPELL and STILL, THE SKY.

Learn more about Tom and his work at https://tompearsonnyc.com/ 

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STILL, THE SKY - Synopsis

Still, the Sky is a speculative mythology rendered through poetry and art that combines the tales of Icarus and the Minotaur and creates for them a shared coming-of-age through a correspondence of written fragments, artifacts, ecofacts, and ephemera. Fragmented memories, relics, and confessions combine in a labyrinth of fever dreams and meditations which contemplate innocence and experience, war and peace, exile and homecoming, flight and failure, love and loss.

 

 

Photo credits:

Headshot: Tom Pearson Courtesy of the Artist
Mic Shot: Tom Pearson Photo by Joshua Dutton-Reaver
Papers in the air: Tom Pearson Photo by Laura Bianchi courtesy of the Bogliasco Foundation