Post-Show Talk: Faye Driscoll

This Post-Show Talk is moderated by Scholar-in-Residence Carla Peterson in conversation with Faye Driscoll. Recorded on July 16, 2026, following the company's performance in the Doris Duke Theatre. Faye Driscoll is a Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award and Doris Duke Award-winning performance maker who has been hailed as a “startlingly original talent” by The New York Times and “a post-millenium postmodern wild woman” by The Village Voice. She returned to the Pillow to present "Weathering," first developed in a Pillow Lab residency in 2022. "Weathering" is a multi-sensory performance sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids, and objects, in which ten people enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene, with the audience embanking the performers. This symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking choreography of micro-events within a momentum thrusting from just beyond the perceivable. The piece is “a testament to commitment, perseverance and courage not soon forgotten” (Boston Globe). In our contemporary moment, when the movements and forces that shape lives can seem difficult to grasp, Driscoll and her collaborators ask: “How do we feel the impact of large events in the intimacy of our own bodies?” Video by Nel Shelby Productions.