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STONE BELLY takes the audience deep into the stomach of a mythological Phillipine crocodile, metabolizing themes of migration, longing, and domestic labor on an allegorical journey to the spirit world. With a visual landscape inspired by traditional fishing nets and buoys, as well as the work of sculptors Ruth Asawa, Mrinalini Mukherjee, and Michele Oka Doner, the dancers use brown paper forms to bring talismanic gastroliths, connective tissue, and volcanic geography to the stage, backed by a single ascending clothesline.
"The girls talk a lot about going into 'The Woods,' a source of forbidden knowledge, and there are certainly creepy scenes, lit by a single lantern, of them crawling through underbrush. They think they’re inching toward something dangerous, but we know that the lasting harm has already been done."
Helen Shaw, The New Yorker