STALL. is a collaborative performance work of dance, sound sculpture, and music by John Driscoll (composer), Maida Withers (choreographer) and Phil Edelstein (loudspeaker animation). 

Stall. was premiered in Berlin, Germany in May 1981 at the Festival of Pantomine, Music, Dance, and Theater at the Akademie der Künste with the Maida Withers Dance Construction Company.

Credits:

DANCE

Maida Withers Dance Construction Company:

Francis Babbs, Dale Crittenberger, Wendell Lockhart, Heather Tuck, and Maida Withers

MUSIC: John Driscoll

ROTATING SPEAKER AUTOMATION: Phil Edelstein

LIGHTING DESIGN: William DeMull

SPEAKER FABRICATION: Peter Labiak

DESCRIPTION:

A rotating sound sculpture suspended above the dance space, creates dynamic movement patterns which are sympathetic to the motion of the dancers.  The dance is a highly physical performance work for solo and ensemble which references to the peripheral circular edge of the stage space and the choreography is built in a circular structure requiring extreme stamina based on the running base.

The rotating loudspeaker disperses sound into the space and takes advantage of the resonant and reflective characteristics of the performance space.  Sound images created by the interaction of the space and the rotating loudspeaker, combine with the music from four peripheral speakers making an acoustical phenomena which could be described as a sonic architecture.

Stall. is choreographed and composed for performance on a proscenium stage or in an open architectural space where the audience is located between the rotating loudspeaker and the peripheral sound field.

Development of the rotating loudspeaker was supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.

PERFORMANCES:

Akademie der Künste - Berlin 5/81

(World Premiere)

Pension Bldg. - Washington D.C.  10/81

(America Premiere)