Ralph Lemon/Cross Performance: How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere November 10, 2010

A homemade spaceship built from scrap metal and wood serves as a central metaphor in the latest work by Alpert Award-winning choreographer and artist Ralph Lemon, who commissioned the craft as part of his eight-year friendship and creative collaboration with Walter Carter, a former Mississippi Delta sharecropper born at the turn of the 20th century. Lemon’s multimedia work How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere juxtaposes images and memories of Walter and his family with fearless dancing by Lemon’s six-member company and sophisticated video imagery, including references to Andrei Tarkovsky’s landmark 1972 sci-fi film Solaris. Described by Lemon as a “speculative fiction epic,” the production bridges the personal and the universal, draws from myths and realities, and reminds us, as Lemon says, of “the special, ordinary, and inspiring human commonality of how one lives a life.”

Official Website: http://www.redcat.org/event/ralph-lemon-cross-performance