h o r i z o n

2026

directed by marion spencer

performed by Stacy Lynn Smith, Shannon Yu, EmmaGrace Skove-Epes, Mor Mendel w/ artistic collaboration & former performance by Vicky Shick & Nora Alami

sound design by Shamar Watt

lighting design by Cassie Dietrich & Shana Crawford

AV supervision by Glenn Potter-Takata

projection design by marion spencer & Glenn Potter-Takata

costume consultation by Ayano Elson

production assistance by Odessa Jacobson, Portia Wells, Valentina Baché & Marcela Torres

h o r i z o n is an interdisciplinary ensemble dance project that calls upon movement, sound, light and materials to interrogate catastrophe, extinction and futurity. Inspired by biological anthropologist Adriana Petryna’s Horizon Work—a radical call to create a deliberative and expansive time and space amid onrushing climate disasters—we study the ensemble as an organism of futurity. Investigating mycorrhizal networks—the roots of fungi that connect tree roots to each other underground, creating a network that shares resources between forest ecosystems—we ask: in a time of extinction, what can we learn from these ancient, non-human teachers that center collectivity, cooperation and curiosity? Through entangled ensemble dance practices, powerful solos, storytelling and worldbuilding with light and a massive golden net, this project proposes the wisdom of the dancer to ground into what we cannot see, but only feel, as the horizon to build and inhabit, together.