A clown play about forgetting
Heading into Night is a performance piece focusing on the realities, the ache and pull, the emptiness and the peripatetic joy inherent in experiencing and encountering dementia. Heading into Night represents a synthesis of research, performance and community engagement in response to the heightened sense of isolation many have experienced during the pandemic.
Devised as a clown ode on loss and remembrance, the work is a collaboration between Beth F. Milles from Cornell’s Department of Performing and Media Arts and Daniel Passer from the California Institute of the Arts. In two years of developing and working on the piece, they have traveled and engaged with a variety of elder care populations and also engaged undergraduate students as story researchers.
This grant supports Passer’s residency in Ithaca; partnership opportunities with Hospicare, Bridges and The Cherry Arts and the workshop process to engage with the eldercare population in Ithaca.
A clown play about forgetting
Heading into Night is a performance piece focusing on the realities, the ache and pull, the emptiness and the peripatetic joy inherent in experiencing and encountering dementia. Heading into Night represents a synthesis of research, performance and community engagement in response to the heightened sense of isolation many have experienced during the pandemic.
Devised as a clown ode on loss and remembrance, the work is a collaboration between Beth F. Milles from Cornell’s Department of Performing and Media Arts and Daniel Passer from the California Institute of the Arts. In two years of developing and working on the piece, they have traveled and engaged with a variety of elder care populations and also engaged undergraduate students as story researchers.
This grant supports Passer’s residency in Ithaca; partnership opportunities with Hospicare, Bridges and The Cherry Arts and the workshop process to engage with the eldercare population in Ithaca.
- Beth F. Milles, Department of Performing and Media Arts, College of Arts and Sciences
- Community partner: Hospicare
- Community partner: Daniel Passer, California Institute of the Arts
Providing seed support for a wide range of community-engaged learning projects