Live Arts - Sanctuary - Brian Sanders' JUNK

Take a wall fourteen feet high and one hundred and twenty feet long and make it into a stage. This is the set for Sanctuary, an exploration of intense movement, ritual, and mistaken assumptions about the past from celebrated choreographer and Festival favorite Brian Sanders. Sometime in the future, a group of people inhabit a blown out, old industrial architectural relic from the past. They have chosen this place as a safe-haven, looking to recreate something from the past that is missing from their lives: a previous, purer way of life-the ever elusive sense of 'the way things used to be.'

Sanders turns this wide visual expanse into an exquisitely choreographed mix of danger, force, and beauty, as his lost tribe brings to life a vision of what this place once was, with a new set of rules and rituals.

'Sanders, a former dancer with Momix, is witty, deadpan and a master of the absurd-but he also remembers the dance element.'
Ellen Dunkel, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Brian Sanders wowed Live Arts Festival goers with the underground exuberance of 2009's Urban Scuba, which transformed the Gershman Y's long abandoned pool into a world of gravity-defying underworld creatures.

Direction and Choreography Brian Sanders Lighting Terry Smith Interactive Sculptures Alex Gartelmann Performers Gunnar Clark, Greg Holt, Amanda Lenox, John Luna, Shadou Mintrones, Sinéad O'Neill, Connor Senning, Dujuan Smart III, Billy Robinson, Brian Sanders

Creative Producers Linda and David Glickstein