"A driving, thrumming new work...at turns elegant and awkward, nuanced, and propulsive. It’s as if [the dancers] are both inside the music and the music is inside them." - THEA SINGER | THE ARTS FUSE

husk/vessel is a collaboration between KAIROS Dance Theater and legendary choreographer Paula Josa-Jones. Through the exploration of costume and fabric as both covering and habitat, husk/vessel asks how we shape images of self and other, and how our environments, including dress, affect our perception and movement. Rather than using costume as apparel only, husk/vessel views clothing as that which both covers and contains, conceals and reveals, the dancer and the dancing, simultaneously limiting and expanding the possibilities for movement and character. Each dancer moves within a unique garment-world of their own, exploring gradual and abrupt transformations and interactions both as soloists sharing common space, and as an ensemble. The fabric also becomes an expression of inner materials – skin, fascia, muscle, bone - revealing the somatic and poetic dimensions of what holds, and separates us. husk/vessel was created entirely during the COVID-19 pandemic; the complex emotions experienced during that challenging time remain, acting as infrastructure for husk/vessel’s visceral landscape. Thea Singer writes via Boston's The Arts Fuse: "...a ying-yang of the textures that have characterized our pandemic lives. Created over those at once barren and cramped two years, ‘husk/vessel’ kinesthetically explores the sloughing off of brittle membranes and the filling of interior hollows with passion and light..."