Sarah Joy Stoker

Stay Staying/Repeat Offenders (2024)

Created and performed by Sarah Joy Stoker

Score by Elling Lien

Repercussions - ripples - rivers - waves - triggered and nuanced by pandemic impressed restrictions, limitations, reactions, and realizations of realities of self and community, this solo lives in the physical rigor, bewildering calm and freeze states that come from extreme loss. In it Stoker travels with her rage and grief over the continuing devastation, exploitation and extraction being done to our world. Witnessing genocide perpetrated by Empire, and an awakening of the world to how our systems are structured and function, still, under such emboldened colonization, oppression, and violence. A solo performed by Stoker to a haunting score by Elling Lien. 

 With deep thanks to Lori Clarke. Funding support from ArtsNL.