long playing
feb 28 - mar 2 | 2025
SHOW DATES|TIMES
Feb 28 @ 7:30pm
Mar 1 @ 2pm & 7:30pm
Mar 2 @ 6pm
“OUT-OF-TOWNERS (RACHAEL LINCOLN AND LESLIE SEITERS) BLOW IN LIKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR WHEN THEY REMIND YOU OF THINGS THAT WE FORGET ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN OUR DAILY LIVES…” - LAist Performance review, Los Angeles
about the show
Long Playing is a training, a tribute, a trial, a social gathering for bodies still learning how to be animals, fully together and lost in a crowd. Lincoln and Seiters oscillate between decisive action that is explicit and demanding, and a receptive stance that is patient, wide, and behind-the-scenes. Viewers of Long Playing have found evidence of a mercurial relationship, a critique of capitalism, an unfolding ritual, and transformation, both glacial and instantaneous. It calls on fictitious guides, animal instincts, and a long history of making together.
Cast & collaborators
CHOREOGRAPHED & PERFORMED by Rachael Lincoln & Leslie Seiters
ABOUT THE artists
With over a decade of creating and performing together, Rachael Lincoln and Leslie Seiters explore the potentials of the duet form, mining the format to reveal the complex intersections of how and who we are in relation to what or whom we meet. Their collaborative work integrates influences from contemporary dance, visual art, literary fiction, and theater, evoking moments when movement becomes language, objects become characters, and everyday logic is suspended. Rather than relying on a known process or style, Lincoln and Seiters continue to meet in a collaborative process that uses their long history on the stage and in the studio together to find new ways of working that are specific to the project at hand. This approach supports the company’s mission to present deeply investigated material, resulting in work with a sense of history, internal logic and integrity.
Long Playing is presented as part of our 2024|2025 Season
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