CORNINGWORKS: Parallel Lives

A duet evening created & performed by BETH CORNING in collaboration with renowned award-winning dancer ARTHUR AVILES – former principal dancer with Bill T. Jones /Arnie Zane Dance Company.  
Set design created by AKIKO KOTANI
Lighting design by IAIN COURT
Projection design by  HSUAN-KUANG HSEIH  謝宣光

Despite the constant “in touch” technology, humanity seems to be growing further apart, more sealed into our own worlds. 

PARALLEL LIVES explores the quiet hum of the quotidian & our even quieter expectations that life could be more. Two strangers? Two lovers? Two neighbors? We don’t know for certain, however what we do know is they are separated by their inability to connect. 

It is the everyday that is of interest here.  That one moment of passing by a window, & in that fleeting glimpse what do we see? The audience and the performers metaphorically, and literally, separated by transparent walls, if we look through them, would we recognize ourselves, or deny the view and return to our virtually connected worlds? Moments of fantasy coincide with the mundane. 

We carry the world in our pockets.
We overlook those across the table
while simultaneously texting others across the globe
— “reaching out” endlessly — hoping for more. 

Wednesday, September 10 – 7pm   
* performance followed by MODERATED ARTIST TALK BACK led by WQED on air host Nancy Polinsky Johnson

Thursday, September 11 – 8pm

Friday, September 12 – 8pm
* performance followed by MODERATED ARTIST TALK BACK led by WQED on air host Nancy Polinsky Johnson

Saturday September 13 - 8pm

Sunday September 14 - 2pm
* PAY WHAT YOU CAN Admission  - at the door only  (regular reserved price tickets available online)

Each performance followed by a complimentary “TASTING EVENT” hosted by local guest celebrity chefs & restaurants

PARALLEL LIVES                                                                        
Come & see.  Come September.