Thing 1 and Thing 2: Sophia Treanor and Deborah Black 

Music by: Aimee Niemann

Featured Artist: Youlim Nam

The Particalist Leader: Jamie McKittrick

In Collaboration with the Particalists: 

Matt Trucano, Constance Strickland, Ko Young, Slade Billew, Allison Dincau, Marvin Edwards, Grey Reynolds, Zoe Michelle Bradshaw, Joana Weaver, Ilyana Kadushin, Dan Dennis, Anna Newbury, Daniel Stepcic, Mimi Whalen, Marvin Edwards, Jewelie Brumley, Sierra Wakefield

Costume Design by Deborah Black and Sophia Treanor

Costume Construction by Deborah Black

Stage Manager and Lighting Design by Jada Martin

Dramaturg: Alexis Riley

Graphic Design Support: Youlim Nam

Technical Support: Michael Desper

Administrative Support: Patricia Lanious 

Cultural Affairs: Tara Gladden

Special thanks to Maarten Pereboom and Michael Desper for welcoming us into your cultural community, Jenna Habermeyer for making this residency possible, to Wendell Beavers for your ongoing support and encouragement as a primary holder of this lineage, and Joan Evans and the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theatre at the Stella Adler Studio for the Arts for giving us the opportunity to develop the first production of Ephemera in 2023.

A Note from the Artists: 

This postmodern work is in the debt of the intertextuality of Africanist aesthetics and Eastern practices. Moreover, we couldn’t have made this work if it weren’t for the lineage of artists and scientists that have come before us. There are quotes inside this work that include moments of perceptual practices of Deborah Hay and compositional wrecking of Susan Rethorst, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s Fase, costume inventions of Rei Kawakubo, Carlos Castaneda’s concept of the nagual as described in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope 2022 images of the

Carina Nebula and the Southern Ring Nebula, Mary Overlie’s dances Hero, The Figure, Summer Garden, and archival footage of Mary’s early studio practice. Mary asked Sophia and Deborah to create a dance from three different drawings shortly before she passed in 2020, and this is the result. The first production of Ephemera was made possible by the generous support of the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Artist in Residency program (MADAIR), the Mary Overlie Legacy Project, and our sponsors.

Created in loving memory of Mary Overlie, and in gratitude for the

continuing adventures she set us off on.

-Sophia Treanor & Deborah Black