PAST CREATIONS
An exploration of the tension between daily, ordinary activities and the movement of history with all its dislocations, symbolized in the slow unrolling of a long silk scroll marked by footprints.
Overflow is dedicated to Haim’s parents, which makes the duets seem more fraught as people meet and part, but this isn’t a singular story of a particular relationship. Instead we watch a community of dancers, sometimes cooperating and sometimes absorbed in their own worlds.
Sandra Kurtz, The Seattle Weekly
Overflow is a timely work, addressing and honoring not only his migrant parents but [and perhaps this is not his original intent] today’s overwhelming European migration, reported to be one of the largest, ever, with upward of millions fleeing and trying to find new homes and lands.
Dean Speer, Critical Dance
Overflow, which Wevers commissioned from choreographer Mark Haim for this program, does indeed brim over with quiet mystery. Haim uses his musical skills to play against the lush romanticism of the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde.
Sandra Kurtz, The Seattle Weekly
Overflow
Premiere
January 22, 2016
Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center
Choreography
Mark Haim
Music
Richard Wagner
Costumes
Mark Zappone, Hendri Walujo
Lighting
Michael Mazzola
Set
Corrie Befort