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Night Vision

A dance made to be watched in the dark, through night-vision goggles — created for the By the People festival and performed at the Kennedy Center and Dance Place.

A blacked-out enclosure of dark drapes and a marked floor, the space where the dance is seen through night-vision goggles
The blacked-out enclosure where the dance is seen through night-vision goggles.
Year 2019Disciplines Choreography, DanceSound design Stephen Johnson III

Night Vision is a dance built to be seen through night-vision goggles. It was created for the By the People festival and has been performed at the Kennedy Center and at Dance Place in Washington, DC.

The dance also appeared in LENS, a larger show produced by Ben Levine that gathered movement-based installations by many different artists — each one experienced through a different means, from binoculars to virtual reality to a 360-degree projection. For LENS, I made the night-vision-goggles installation with Shannon Quinn.

Review — CriticalDance (Carmel Morgan, 2019)

Marked floor inside the darkened performance enclosure
Floor marks in the dark.
An empty stage framed by tall theatrical drapes
The stage before load-in.
Boris Willis in the rehearsal space with glow-taped marks on the floor
Glow-taped marks for moving in the dark.
Boris Willis with a collaborator at the side of the stage
At the side of the stage.
Soft-focus black-and-white still of two dancers from Night Vision
From Night Vision.
Soft-focus black-and-white still of two dancers close together from Night Vision
From Night Vision.
Soft-focus black-and-white still of two dancers seen from behind from Night Vision
From Night Vision.