“As part of Duke Performances’ virtual fall season, Batten Bland’s intercontinental interdisciplinary vessel, Company SBB, explore a new work created for camera: a continuation of Batten Bland’s dance cinema practice, in alignment with the new daily choreographies of quarantine. Working from upstate NY, through river tributaries, Batten Bland marshals an intimate configuration of her company to explore underlining historical and present day directional up/ downstate tensions in the region during the pandemic. Those familiar with Batten Bland’s Duke Performances-commissioned work for the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company will see a thematic through line in her ongoing investigation of monumentality: what’s upheld and what’s overturned in the material and geographical remaking of our relations.”
- Michaela Dwyer, Duke Performances
