Sarah Joy Stoker

SAPIENS LAY HERE (2007)

Creation and performance by Sarah Joy Stoker

Original score by Lori Clarke

Light design by Robert Gauthier

Costumes by Peggy Hogan and Charlotte Reid

45 min solo

"we are coming to a very extraordinary moment in the history of humanity, when only such a spontaneous, competent, and ultimately cooperative design-science initiative-taking, on the part of a large majority of human individuals, can ensure humanity's safe crossing of the cosmically critical threshold into its prime and possibly eternal functioning in the macro-micro cosmic scheme."  R. Buckminster Fuller

This work was funded by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council and the City of St. John’s.

Mentorship, outside eye and support were provided by Lee Saunders through Canada Council mentorship funding, and Luciane Pinto during the creation of this work. My deepest love and thanks to them.

April, 2007, The Sardinian Intermedial Cultural Association ARKA/ InterAzioni XX Project, Assemini-Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

May, 2007, Festival of New Dance in St. John's, NL

2008, Performance Mix Festival, Joyce Soho Theatre, New York, NY

2008, Contact East, Liverpool, Nova Scotia

2008, Sound Symposium, St. John’s

2008, Festival of New Dance Special local presentation

2009, Shared program with Lee Saunders, Capital Theatre, Moncton, NB