Phantom Limb

69°S.

Hop Co-commission/North American Premiere
Created by Jessica Grindstaff & Erik Sanko
Directed by Sophie Hunter

Conceived in collaboration with David Harrington/Kronos Quartet
Developed with Tony Taccone
Video Design by Shaun Irons & Lauren Petty
Costumes by threeASFOUR
Recorded Performance by Kronos Quartet
Additional Music by Skeleton Key
Produced by ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann
In Association with Beth Morrison Projects

An exhilarating team of contemporary musical, visual and performance artists recreate one of the greatest survival stories of all time, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914-1916 Antarctica expedition. Phantom Limb returns to the Hop with a visual evocation of the South Pole’s forbidding beauty—embodied in an original score recorded by the Kronos Quartet—and the expedition’s courageous survivors. Erik Sanko’s haunting, uncannily expressive three-foot-high marionettes, operated by white-clad dancer-puppeteers on stilts, share the stage with icebergs and a shipwrecked vessel, with inspiration drawn from travels in Antarctica and objects from Dartmouth’s Polar Exploration collection.

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Funded in part by the Expeditions program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from the six New England state arts agencies. Additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Access to Artistic Excellence program.

69°S. is a co-production of Grand Theatre Groningen/Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival en Noord Nederlands Toneem and co-commissioned by Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College; Arts Centre of Melbourne, Australia and Victoria College of the Arts; and EMPAC/Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Additional residency development provided by Mass MoCA and Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Part of the Off Road series

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