Dance-Theatre Production | 2018

Izzy sits on her cushion in a meditation retreat, swimming in the affair. Beth’s therapist encourages her “it’s normal to feel like a dragon.” It’s unclear why Aden chose to tell Beth while they were at her parent’s house. Maybe there’s just never a good time or a good place to give someone bad news.

Either you’ve had the experience of being in a committed relationship and falling in love with someone else, or you’ve been in a relationship with someone who was falling in love with someone else, or you’ve fallen in love with someone who was in a committed relationship.

“But if this story is so old, why don’t we have better ways of dealing with it?”

 There’s no one to blame — just three deeply relatable, well-intentioned adults, caught in a triggering situation — turning the impact of the show from the realm of romantic comedy into the cultural work of cultivating a more responsible way of being.

“A post-modern dance-theatre rom-com demonstration”, Fading Brightness is the culmination of Loom Ensemble‘s fourth annual residency at thejamjar. Essentially it’s an interdisciplinary performance workshop by a company “based in Dubai and New York City” that combines dance, music and theatre in equal parts.

Fading Brightness de-stigmatizes breakdown, anxiety, and depression, by celebrating the kaleidoscopic array of resources and strategies for meeting heartbreak without shutting down.

“I’ve had the deep pleasure of knowing the founders (Raph and Neva) of interdisciplinary performance collective Loom Ensemble since 2014. Our first work together was an experimental 10min play for Short+Sweet Dubai. Four years later in 2018 we came together again for Fading Brightness. The most joyful part of a Loom Ensemble production is the creative process. Devising is all about blue-sky thinking and playing. We explore metaphors, symbols, ritual, movement, music… we really try things out and pick stuff that works. There is so much honesty, respect and heart in creating.”