I see something like this, I just want to fall in love.
–Tiberio Simone, at just about the point when performer Laura Stokes opened her parasol and unleashed the rain from the trapeze.
We were at STITCH, where we had already been amazed and mesmerized for almost an hour by the beautiful and impossible performance of the duo that comprises Ricochet—Stokes and Cohdi Harrell. I was completely entranced and happy, satiated and satisfied with the magic this pair of humans had created.
I have been consuming a lot of aerial performance these days, as well as things circus. I have seen little that is as inspiring, compelling, and delightful as STITCH. I was in tears of joy. And that’s not exaggeration.
Here is the bit from the performers’ description of STITCH, as well as a video sample (click on STITCH at the bottom menu).
STITCH is a story as small as a photograph and as broad as a moment. Tip toeing the line between subtlety and spectacle, STITCH is an exploration of connection, potential, and dysfunction inherent to human relationship. A look inside the emotional landscape of two humans, broken and isolated, who find redemption in autonomy and interdependence. Ricochet uses lyric physicality, improvisation, and contemporary experimentalism to explore the stitch that we get ourselves into, and the stitch that ultimately sews us all together.
Too late now to catch them soon in Seattle. Perhaps you can make their show in Berekley, May 7, 8, and 9 at Shotgun Players.
Prepare to be transported and transformed.
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