no plan b is a full evening length work that Apogee Arts self-produced in the summer of 2017. A large rented tent became both the performance venue and the canvas for this multimedia event with movement, projection, and sound. Performers and audience members alike were immersed in a 360-degree ever-changing landscape.
For a small non-profit organization, this was a huge undertaking and aesthetic leap, made possible by a layered collaboration between Alison Chase, projection designer Gene Felice, composer Franz Nicolay, and the fearless dancers with whom Apogee Arts is fortunate to work. The work was developed in part during a creative research residency at the University of Maine at Orono’s Innovative Media, Research, and Commercialization Center, which allowed Apogee Arts to install a tent on the grounds to experiment.
Apogee Arts premiered no plan b in summer 2017 with performances in Fort Knox State Park in Prospect, Maine and on Thompson’s Point in Portland, Maine.
Created and directed by Alison Chase in collaboration with…
Gene Felice, Projection Designer
Franz Nicolay, Composer
Performed by
Jessica Bendig Brown
Graham Cole
Ezra Go
Sean Langford
Jenna Liberati
Matt Walfish
When an organization like Apogee Arts steps out of the box aesthetically and takes on the task of self-producing, it also steps beyond some of the more traditional funding sources and granting guidelines. Apogee Arts is incredibly grateful for those funders who have seen value in funding community-based, non-proscenium, cross-genre work. It is so valuable to have partners who will dare to jump into the unexpected to explore and experiment.
“This innovative creative team has put together a 60-minute mind-expanding travelogue: no plan b is a journey that toys with transformation: of time, space, the elements, and the serendipity of discovery.”
no plan b was funded by National Endowment for the Arts, Maine Arts Council, Maine Community Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts Dance Fund, Davis Family Foundation, University of Maine New Media program, and Anonymous Bosch.
For additional information, please contact director@apogeearts.org.