Runtime: 75 mins (Excerpts: 5 – 40mins)
6 dancers
Music by: Xhin, Thom Yorke, Alvo Noto, Deru, Animal Collective, and Moderat.
Full premiere: The Actors Fund Arts Center, December 2015
Somnipath is an evening length dance work exploring the most basic of human needs: sleep. Inspired by Inclined’s company member’s struggles with various sleeping disorders (including sleepwalking, restless leg syndrome, and sleep paralysis), Somnipath takes the audience on a visual journey through the various stages and abnormalities of sleep. Utilizing unique lighting methods, an original compiled sound-score, and a collaborative movement vocabulary, Inclined Dance Project has developed a multi-layered landscape inspired by dreams, nightmares, circadian patterns, dyssomnias, shadows, REM cycles, unconsciousness, and awakening.
Somnipath is divided into 3 sections, “The Day”, “The Night”, and “Awakening”, and can be easily broken up into smaller excerpts.