Premiered 2012

Inspired by WPA photos from the Fine Art Center’s exhibition for the multidisciplinary project, ‘Resilience’ which capture the images from the great depression. The work builds a vision; the story what happened before is what happening now. The fallout of the 1929 Stock Market crash cast a great shadow over the US – the Great Depression. But even in such struggle, the complexity of togetherness can meet one of our greatest needs – the longing for relationship. The light of genuine relationships is wealth that can be neither bought nor sold.

Overture
Dawn
The Value =?!X!?
Let Me Fall
Homeless
Hooverville
Self Portrait
We Could Have it All
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Choreography:
Billy Chang, Yi-Chun & the dancers

Music:
Dead can dance (The Carnival is Over), Lucilla Galeazzi (Rinello), Blue Man Group (Time to start), Quidam (Let me fall), Maria del Mar Bonet (De sentir), J.S Bach (Cello Suite Bwv 1007: Prelude), Lucilla Galeazzi (Cinturini), Perfume (Laura’s Murder), Rudy Vallee (Brother Can You Spare a Dime), Tchaikovsky (Waltz of the Snowflakes), Bertha Chippie Hill (Christmas Man Blues), Chet Baker (My Funny Valentine)

Sound Edit and Design:
Billy Chang, Yi-Chun

Costumes:
Susi Hubbs, The Costume Lady

Dancers:
Mary Ripper Baker, Amanda Browning, Kim Davagian, Emily Ford, Liz Fegley, Janet Johnson, Stephanie Kobes, Katelin McGrath, Jessica Russ Medovich, Sarah Tietje Sabin, and Jen Viola