Scarecrow

February 12, 2026 - March 1, 2026

Dedicated to my immigrant grandmother who in hospice with dementia was isolated from her family and elder-abused by her caretaker, this psycho-physical theater holds mind and body in open confrontation; when what is said and what is done tell different stories, their disjunction leaves an interstice that becomes a locus for truth neither register can articulate by itself. Based on Marina Carr’s "Woman and Scarecrow," in which a morphine-hazed woman on her deathbed hallucinates a Scarecrow, "Scarecrow" is an experimental dance theater of disjointed vignettes that frame mind and body as separate, antagonistic forces. A quiet, disorienting psychodrama set in a 1950s interior that is simultaneously a wheatfield, where time won’t pass, scenes loop as deteriorated memories, and an anachronistic, quadripartite seasonal macrostructure keeps returning the body to its limits. Stylistically influenced by Noh theater, Robert Wilson, Béla Tarr’s "Satantango," and E. Elias Merhige’s "Begotten," the work superimposes two simultaneous yet unrelated narrative compositions—one of text and one of the body.