Black Box New Music Ensemble at the Clark Art Institute

Choreographer: Joelle Santiago

Dancer: Liana Zhen-ai Kleinman

Videography, Coloring: Chun Fung Kevin Chiu

Composer: inti figgis-vizueta "form the fabric"

Musicians: Blackbox New Music Ensemble

Wardrobe Design: Joelle Santiago X hushhhhhhnow

A special thank you to Annie Nikunen and Leonard Bopp for their invitation to this project and dedicated work.

program notes

Form the Fabric provides a flexible lead sheet for group-oriented improvisation and musicmaking. The title derives from NMAI archaeologist Ramiro Mato's phrase describing the cosmological understandings of the Incan & Andean peoples through description of the Inca Road as 'threads interwoven to form the fabric of the physical and spiritual world. This work was made in New York City in January of 2020.