Faye Driscoll’s Weathering is a luminously living, breathing multi-sensory sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids, and objects.
In this 2023 OBIE award-winning piece, ten performers & crew enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a moving raft-like stage. Their voices generate a score that crescendos and resonates as they clutch, careen, and cleave, in a space too small to contain them, spilling off the edges. The audience surrounds the performers, close enough to smell the sweat and feel the steam of the spiraling scenes.
Weathering attempts to reckon with life in an uncanny age when the forces that shape our lives—and our futures—feel impossible to fully perceive. Drawing inspiration from the work of philosopher Timothy Morton, Driscoll and her team of collaborators ask: How do we feel the impact of earth-shaking events moving through us? How do we get closer to the impact? Can we slow down enough to feel the dust, hurt, howl, absence, spill, plume?
“An enthralling, epically adventurous work”
— The New York Times
Photo: Tiffany Bessire, OZ Arts, 2025
Featuring: James Barrett, Amy Gernux, Emily Vizina, Jo Warren
Performance Information
September 4-6, 2025
Sept 4 + 5 at 7pm
Sept 6 at 2pm
Pricing
$35 Standard
$15 Students & 25-and-Unders
$2 FringeACCESS
FringeArts Member discounts & benefits available
Venue
FringeArts
140 N Columbus Blvd
Philadelphia PA 19106
About the Artist
Faye Driscoll
Faye Driscoll is a performance maker and artist based between New York and Los Angeles. She has been hailed as a “startlingly original talent” by The New York Times. She creates work from an alchemy of bodies, voices, objects and live sound to conjure worlds that are, like ourselves, alive and forever changeable. She won an Obie Award for her newest performance-sculpture, Weathering, which is currently touring internationally. She has been presented at Tanz im August, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, La Biennale di Venezia, Festival d’Automne à Paris, and Festival Dias da Dança (Porto) among many others. Select awards include the Doris Duke Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Bessie, and the Jacob’s Pillow Artist Award. She believes live art is radical and necessary in this over-mediated time.
Creative & Production Team
Faye Driscoll Conception/Choreographer/Director
Supporters
Weathering is commissioned and produced by New York Live Arts as part of the New York Live Arts Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Program, and co-commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Joyce Theater Foundation’s Artist Residency Center made possible by lead funding from The Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, Wexner Center for the Arts, Theater der Welt 2023 in Frankfurt – Offenbach, and Julidans Amsterdam. Additional support provided by members of Faye Driscoll’s Commissioners Circle, New York State Council on the Arts, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and developed with residency support from Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, and the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow.
Legend Producers
The Janet Yaseen Foundation
Julia and Nicole Katowitz
Icon Producers
Linda and David Glickstein
Co-producers
Theresa Spencer
Michelle Hong and Alex Goranin
Accessibility
Wheelchair/Limited Mobility Seating and Sensory Kits Available. Venue social narrative is available online. Check PhillyFringe.org for additional services for specific shows.
Content Considerations
This show contains:
- Nudity
Health & Safety
Masks are optional, vaccines are not required. More information about FringeArts COVID policies can be found here.