Vessel

Work-in-development

Choreography by Shannon Hummel, in collaboration with the dancers

Dancers: Nikki Assanti, Ammara Shafqat, Cynthia Thompson, Keon Washington, with additional community members

Original score-in-development: Hans Bilger

Vessel — SH/CD’s latest work-in-progress — is a meditation on the quiet, unseen forces that shape us. Vessel unfolds in a field—literal and metaphorical— where life and death, knowing and not knowing, dissolve into one another, asking: What is peace in a time of unrest? What remains when we are gone? Hidden lives carry this world forward, not by spectacle, but by presence, touch, and the willingness to let go, move on, and begin anew.

Photos by Nicole Frye