Berkshire Lantern Walk
In partnership with the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
Summers, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
Photos: Jamie Skidmore
For the past three summers, the Berkshire Community has gathered on Stone Hill to build a lantern and take a walk though the forests behind the Clark. Along the way — an illuminated sculpture garden, and then, a performance with abstract glowing puppets by members of the New England Puppet Intensive. Like Greek ekphrastic poems of yor, the evening is in response to the art inside the museum — such as Video artist Jennifer Steinkamp and the color-field paintings of Helen Frankenthaler — but instead of words, the experience is of an illuminated dance of shape, line and texture.
INISKIM, Return of the Buffalo
Presented by
National Arts Centre English Theatre’s
Grand Acts of Theatre, Marking this Moment
Co-Creators: Amethyst First Rider, David Lane,
Nan Balkwill, Peter Balkwill
Artists in Residence: Troy Emery Twigg, Marie-Êve Cormier, Ian McFarlane, Geneviève Paré,
Kimberly Cooper, Randi Edmundson
Drummers: Eya Hey Nakoda
Funding: Canada Council New Chapter,
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
August, 2017, NAC, Oct. 2020
Iinisikimm is an outdoor, nighttime, theatre event and celebration of the return of the Buffalo to Banff national park. It is a collaboration of First Nations and non-First Nations artists, performers, storytellers, scientists and elders from across Canada.
Watch the CBC mini-doc here.
See a bit of the performance in a video by Leanne Allison here.
View the short documentary produced by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts here.
Download the information packet.
Thomas Cole &
Frederick Church
Olana & Ancram Opera House,
Hudson New York, Oct. 2018
Costumes: Scout Vintage
Photos: David Lane
Like shadows from the past, these figures of Thomas Cole and Frederick Church took in the views from alongside the Hudson River on a sunny fall day. They perused the art at the Skywalk Festival before exploring the strange anachronistic Rip Van Winkle Bridge which now spanned the crossing which once they made by boat to visit each other and forge a new American style of painting.
St. John’s Lantern Festival
Workshop and Community Created Lantern Play
Storytellers: Andy Jones & Mary Fearon
Direction and Workshop: David Lane
LSPU Hall, and Victoria Park, Newfoundland, 2016, 2015
Artists and community members worked side by side to create an illuminated lantern performance based on the traditional Newfoundland tale of Jack and the World’s End Water.
Watch the CBC story here.
MASS MoCA Kidspace
Artist in Residence
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art ,
North Adams, MA, Nov. 2016
Elementary students from the surrounding townships joined me for construction workshops in which they built lanterns which would be the vessels to carry their hopes and wishes for their community. Their artwork was arranged in an installation which seemed to float toward a lantern moon.
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