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Last night, in the Upstairs Studio of Dancehouse, Emily Bowman and Joey Lehrer performing as [ two for now ] became an ocean conveyor belt in “Weathering.” ‘You be the warm shallow current, and I’ll be the cold and salty deep current,’ Bowman might have said to Lehrer before they ran in a clockwise direction. ‘Together, we’ll feel what it is like to be an ocean gyre in the Northern Hemisphere. We’ll run in a spiral like the currents formed by wind patterns and forces created by the Earth in rotation.’ Together, a thermohaline circulation was revealed. Together, [ two for now ] are surveying “the interdependence of nature and human relationships in the emergent and continual process of becoming.”[note][ two for now ], Emily Bowman and Joey Lehrer, “Weathering” Program Notes, Season Two, Dancehouse, accessed September 9, 2022[/note]
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“Weathering” by Emily Bowman and Joey Lehrer. Photograph by Ian Ferguson
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