off-leash area: Predator/Prey

PREDATOR-PREY (2004)

Predator-Prey is an original dance and theater performance that follows the parallel lives of two women colliding through a veil in time surrounded by a total winter installation of ice and snow.

In collaboration with nationally produced Anishinaabe playwright, Marcie Rendon, off-Leash area: takes you to the heart of a northern Midwest winter where every breath hangs in the air like a mystery, and where life and death are forever in balance. With a fierce physicality, the anxious, disconnected lives of two women - one in the present in an urban world, the other in the past at the edge of the Great Plains - meet here in a dramatic collision across time and space.

Predator-Prey is brought to life by a trio of shape-shifting spirits of the earth who alternately become wolves, trees, villagers, and the shadowy silhouettes of the nameless denizens of the city. Black crows, masked in the style of the Northern Haida tribe, dance the story home as they all intertwine with a dense and eclectic aural design.

Created and Developed by Jennifer Ilse with Paul Herwig and Marcie Rendon--Direction and Choreography - Jennifer Ilse--Scenic Design & Construction, Masks and Props - Paul Herwig--Text and Dramaturgy - Marcie Rendon--Sound Design - Reid Kruger--Lighting Design - Paul Epton--Cast - 9--Duration - 85 minutes