Strings of Life: A Performance About What Ties Us Together

Strings of Life is an immersive, interactive performance about what ties us together. Live music, dance, and spoken word unfold around you, Strings of Life is a music based immersive theater experience that considers the fibers of our very being by conceptualizing strings in many forms such as the sounds of harps and violins, the physics of string theory, the storyteller’s spinning of a yarn, the craftwork of sewing and knitting and even the metallic woven patterns of a circuit board. Strings of Life explores the relationship between stringed instruments and fiber arts—looms, spinning wheels, and drop spindles. This piece will highlight the physical and metaphorical connections between weaving, sewing, knitting and music-making. Visually the Strings of Life explores the line - lines of the harp strings, lines of a stitch, timelines and heritage in the works of our hands. During Strings of Life, audiences journey through connected rooms — each a distinct scene of exposition on a line— before converging in a grand finale performance of a string quartet composed by Pamela Martinez. Strings of Life considers craft, utility and fine art of fibers while comparing it to sounds of a vibrating string and physics of technology networks. In other words, the fiber of our being is the technology of our bodies and lines delivering the pulse of creation.