Smoke-Screen:
This, and Other Warnings
2015
Smoke Screen joins an interdisciplinary conversation in considering whether we are in a new geologic era, The Anthropocene, an epoch where human activities have a significant global impact on the earth. As technology merges with natural processes, as human powers increase to alter what was once labeled as “organic,” conventional distinctions begin to blur. With the human body at the center of its substance, Smoke Screen reveals the body as both a genesis of environmental and ecological impact, and a place where that impact is felt.

​CHOREOGRAPY:  Jennifer Kayle
​IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CAST:  Jessica Anthony, Erin Corcoran, Emily Climer, George de la Peña, Courtney Fleming, Tyler Nemmers, Anthony Pucci, Calvin Windschitl
MUSIC:  Jason Palamara, Center for New Music
TEXT:  Jennifer Kayle
COSTUME CONCEPTION:  Heidi Henderson
FILM:  Tori Lawrence
LENGTH:  30 min
PERFORMANCES:

2015  | October
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY ​

2015  |  May
GUSH  |  Highways Performance Space
Los Angeles, CA

2015  |  March
Age of the Anthropocene  |  The Englert Theatre
​Iowa City, IA 
MORE ABOUT THE WORK:
​
Energy Cultures in the Age of the Anthropocene
The Englert Theater

Smoke-Screen: Dance Performance Explore Themes of the Anthropocene
Obermann Center for Advanced Studies 
​
Connecting Science and Dance in the 'New Age of Humans' 
​​Iowa City Press Citizen

Smoke-Screen Performance Investigates Humanity's Impacts on Earth
​The University of Wyoming