I Love you so much, SQUEEZE ME TO DEATH (2019)

I love you so much, SQUEEZE ME TO DEATH (2019)

An immersive dance performance with interactive video and sound installations, exploring the ways we lose ourselves loving others.

Chart your own path through an ever changing landscape. Engage with live performers.

Effect sound and projection in real time. Become the object of affection.

  • Performers Jemima Choong, Robyn O’Dell and Brittany Tran in ILUSQME2 at the Bootleg Theatre, photo by Brian Hashimoto
  • Performers Chris Tyler and Robyn O’Dell in I love you so much, SQUEEZE ME TO DEATH (ILUSQME2) at the Bootleg Theatre, photo by Brian Hashimoto
  • Performer Robyn O’Dell in ILUSQME2 at the Bootleg Theatre, photo by Brian Hashimoto
  • Performer Jemima Choong in ILUSQME2 at the Bootleg Theatre, photo by Brian Hashimoto
  • Performers Brittany Tran, Jemima Choong and Tatiana Beverly  in ILUSQME2 at the Bootleg Theatre, photo by Brian Hashimoto

I love you so much, SQUEEZE ME TO DEATH has been presented at Highways Performance Space, The Bootleg Theater and Slamdance DIG.

Additional credits:

Interactive video installations by Koryn Ann Wicks

Interactive sound installations by Alex Lough

Light Design by Morgan Embry

Text by Samuel Alper

Music by Jonah Rosenberg

Press:

Wicks’ work here seems to be constructed around this principle: that the space between performer and audience is a medium of connection. And while there’s nothing in the way of narrative agency placed into the hands of her audience, neither are we confined to seats or limited to our standing room only starting points.

Indeed, at times individuals in the audience become props and/or partners of the dancers. Some going so far as the mirroring even athletic portions of the choreography. There isn’t narrative thrust in these moments so much as there is thematic inclusion: we too seek to connect through performance. To something all too often hidden away by social graces and the demands of the marketplace.

-Noah Nelson No Proscenium