DESCRIPTION OF PIECE

Common Circus is a three-ring exploration of the mundane, in which common tasks and notions will be shown through a lens of performance and spectacle.

As a pandemic's worth of at-home time passed, Kim Holman found herself focusing on the tasks and motions she repeated regularly, fantasizing about the site of utmost spectacle—circus—and questioning what it would be like to throw such rote tasks as making coffee into the three-ring environment.

From folding laundry to existential dread, throughout this work audience members are invited to notice and celebrate the mundane and ritualized bits of their own lives.

This version of Common Circus is available with or without audio description.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kimberleigh A. Holman is an artist working at the intersection of dance and theater. She is Co-Founder/Artistic Director of Luminarium Dance, and the founder of Human Movement Lab. With Luminarium, Kim’s work has been shown at Boston venues of all sizes, including the MFA, the Boston Opera House, and three Boston Public Libraries. Last year, Kim was awarded the Boston Dancemakers Residency, where she began work on Common Circus while in residence at the Boston Center for the Arts. Amidst many noteworthy grants and awards, Kim is most interested in making dance accessible to as wide an audience as possible, often outside the stage space, and utilizing performance as a tool to make conversation and small scale change. More at kaholman.com.