Moss and Other Things
Arts on Site NYC
12 St Marks Place (3rd floor, elevator or stairs)
New York, NY 10003
November 15th, 2025 at 6:30pm + 8:30pm
Moss and Other Things
Choreography + Direction by Esmé Julien Boyce
Performance by Ching-I Chang, Esmé Julien Boyce, Caroline Fermin, Pierre Guilbault, Cori Kresge
Music Composition by Cody Boyce, Dreamt Dreamer, and Eleanor Hovda
Costume Design by Sue Julien and Esmé Julien Boyce
Set Design by Kit Boyce
Special thank you to Gentry Isaiah George and Matilda Sakamoto for their fabulous collaboration during the long, intermittent process of making of this piece. Their contributions are laced throughout the dance even though they weren’t available to perform in this premiere.
Moss and Other Things is a piece about the coexistence of conflicting experiences. It is about the joy of your child laughing and the simultaneous grief of a loved one lost; going to the park on perfect afternoons knowing war is ravaging families across oceans; humor and rage bubbling up next to each other. It explores the moments of transcendence in which we move between the everyday and the vast unknown. This work pulls its aesthetic language from a recent trip to Iceland where we wandered lava fields in which soft vibrant moss grew on the hardened, cooled, molten core of the earth, the calm evidence of the Earth’s explosive power.
