ON THE OTHER SIDE (2020)

The fall of the Berlin Wall. 
A youth spent on both sides of the Rio Grande.
A fourteen year wait for the right papers.
The desire for borders to be drawn.
The desire for borders to be erased. 

In On the Other Side, performers whose lives have been directly and deeply impacted by borders at different times and in different places, confront how these lines have affected their bodies, their thoughts and their memories. A visceral and kaleidoscopic investigation into the real and imagined borders that delineate the territories of our lives.

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Created by Marike Splint
Created and performed by Vaneh Assadourian, Isis Avalos, Paul Outlaw
Scenic and Projection Design Hana Kim
Lighting Design Christopher Kuhl
Costume Design Naomi Gonzalez Kahn
Sound Design and Original Composition Jonathan Snipes
Dramaturgy Marc Villanueva Mir
Stage Manager & Production Manager M. Prudente
Technical Director Cameron Squire
Assistant Projection Design Anne Slote

Text written by the company, with fragments from Georges Perec’s Species of Spaces.

On the Other Side is a National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network (NPN/VAN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by the Skirball Cultural Center in partnership with ADRI Penn State and NPN/VAN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org. On the Other Side received additional support from UCLA’s Department of Theater.

Pictures by Gema Galiana / La Mujer Tranvia