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Sunrise Commitment


In a daring, hungry and weak moment, right out of dreams or not yet having slept, we meet.




From April 17 2017 to April 16 2018 I told myself I would watch the sun rise every day; I called this decision the Sunrise Commitment. Sunrise Commitment invites an audience to wake up and come together one hour before the sun is set to cross the horizon. We gather outside with tea and blankets, check our heartbeats and, bathing in the uncertain light of morning, gaze towards the horizon. In the distance, two dancers and the star of the dawn meet each other in successive waves. Somewhere on the wind, musicians play their own ode to the dawn.

This is a commitment to commitment, a practice of what that can mean: to wake up for each other, orientating ourselves in the morning light towards a landscape that, through layers of depth and simultaneity, draws us out into different forms of centre. It's a piece for joy and exhaustion, for the approach and the retreat.
Sunrise Commitment is the result of a year of daily sunrise contemplation and is documented in the self-published book O.

The day begins in darkness
The day begins in the night
In the night, before light
Between the hour of the Star
And the dawn before the Sun


caption: Audience watching Sunrise Commitment, Amsterdam 2018, photo Thomas Lenden.
caption: Kelly Kenaan, Camille Lacelle-Wilsey and Rebecca Rehder, music performed live by Frédérique Roy and Simon Labbé at FURIES festival, Marsoui, QC, 2023, photos Marie-Josée Lemieux.
caption: Kelly Kenaan, Camille Lacelle-Wilsey and Rebecca Rehder, music performed live by Frédérique Roy and Simon Labbé at FURIES festival, Marsoui, QC, 2023, photos Marie-Josée Lemieux.
caption: Sunrise Commitment at OFFTA, Champs des Possibles 2019, performed by Kelly Keenan and Rebecca Rehder, photo Sona David.


Credits:
60 minutes
Concept, Choreography and performance by Erin Hill
Created with the performers Kelly Keenan and Rebecca Rehder, also performed by Charlie   Prince, Camille Lacelle-Wilsey
Sound design by Simon Labbé and Frédérique Roy

Shows: 
DAS Theatre Graduation Show 2018, Amsterdam
Art in Oost festival 2018, Amsterdam
DISKURS festival 2018, Giessen
OFFTA festival 2019, Montreal
Lots of Love (LOL) festival 2021, Montreal
Festival for Live Art Amsterdam (FLAM) 2022, Amsterdam
FURIES festival 2023, Marsoui, Québec

Partners: DAS Graduate School, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Canada Council for the Arts. 
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