OCEANIC FEELING
A durational ritual across a vast expanse of ocean shoreline, Faye Driscoll’s Oceanic Feeling charts the slow descent of 16 performers from the dunes and the sand to the water. Seemingly spreading into infinity, the performers - spaced evenly across an almost unseeable distance, enact a sustaining loop of breath and sculptural forms that thwart perspective and seem to tilt our sense of the line between sand and sky.
What if, she wondered, instead of poisoning and polluting the ocean, we were able to crawl inside it? To merge the water in our bodies with the water of the sea?
—Gia Kourlas, The New York Times
CONCEPTION, CHOREOGRAPHY, AND DIRECTION BY Faye Driscoll
PERFORMED BY James Barrett, Kara Brody, Leslie Cuyjet, Kaijo Caggins, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Lena Engelsein, Amy Gernux, Neva Guido, David Guzman, Maya LaLiberte, Mor Mendel, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Katrina Reid, Cory Seals, Carlo Antonio Villanueva, Jo Warren, Devika Wickremesinghe
COSTUME DESIGN BY Karen Boyer
DRAMATURGY BY Dages Juvelier Keates
CHOREOGRAPHIC ASSISTANCE BY Amy Gernux
PRODUCTION AND COMPANY MANAGER Lilach Orenstein
PRODUCED BY Beach Sessions Dance Series (Sasha Okshteyn, Artistic Director, Producer, and Morgan Griffin, Co-producer)
COMMISSIONING & SUPPORT
Oceanic Feeling was commissioned by Beach Sessions Dance Series for its 10th Anniversary Season
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Alex Munro & audiences
PAST PERFORMANCES
September 2, 2025 @ Rockaway Beach, Beach 116
