Stone’s War

Site-specific performance/installation at the Old American Can Factory, Brooklyn, NY 

A contemporary trickster tale about an old woman who "would rather be lost at war in the cities than be at peace in a tame wilderness." Fighting to survive in the city, she joins the flea community as it battles the Exterminator who threatens it with annihilation. Audiences climbed from alley to moonlit rooftop, peered into the purgatory of a flooded cellar, descended into a cobbled courtyard. Action spilled over four-story ramparts and fire escape. The audience followed a limping victor back out into the street. Inspired by Gerald Viznor's 1992 book Dead Voices.

Concept/curation/direction: Dana  Salisbury

Scenes created and performed by Ariane Anthony, Christopher Caines, DD Dorvillier, Tony Giovannetti, Morgan Kara, Dafna Naphtali, Dana Salisbury, Kieko  Uenishi, and Deke Weaver

Lighting Design: Tony Giovanetti

Photo: Michael Lillard

Video documentation: Peter Richards

Stone's War was co-produced with Dancing in the Streets in association with XO:projects, and funded in part by the Greenwall Foundation.