MESH is a network of fragmented stories about individuals running against time while feeling trapped behind a mask of uncertainties. The network is threaded with experiences from friends and loved ones in those difficult times. MESH looks at our lives through those unexpected situations that test our resilience, and the impermanence of our bodies. At the same time, it invites discoveries of beauty within perilous conditions. MESH invites the audience to reflect on the value of our love and lives.

Direction: Daiane Lopes da Silva. Choreography: Daiane Lopes da Silva in collaboration with dancers Hien Huynh, Juliet Paramor, Maria Sotnikova Alex Law, and Hannah Wasielewski. Art direction: Jiayi Young. Original music: Ben Juodvalkis. Technology by Travis Bennet (Motion Capture), and Weidong Yang (Time Bubble). Visual design: Raymond Larrett.

MESH II with Hien Huynh or Keanu Forrest Brady, Juliet Paramor, Alex Law and Hannah Wasielewski.

MESH was made possible through the support of the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation and the CounterPulse Combustible Residency.

Thanks to SandBox Suites, Travis Bennett, John Bohannon, Lake Tahoe Dance Collective, Hannah Young, Masha Rotfeld, Dancer’s Group, and all Open Lab participants. Special thanks to Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, CounterPulse Combustible Residency, Jiayi Young, Shih-Wen Young, and John Heimann for supporting the creation of MESH

Video editing by Raymond Larrett.

“CounterPulse’s ‘Combustible Residency’ Toys with Technology” - Review of MESH by John Wilkins of KQED on Sept;. 13, 2017.

“…Kinetech Arts’ Mesh slips into disturbing and shocking territory that continually confounds our beliefs about technology and human agency…The whole effect is ridiculously beautiful and more than a bit terrifying. Here is art that takes an idea and harnesses it to a rigorous aesthetic practice. And because of that, you can’t stop thinking about it.

MESH was made possible through the support of the CounterPulse Combustible Residency with additional support from the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.

MESH was performed at CounterPulse, Dance Mission Theater and Joe Goode Annex (FRESH Festival).

In honor of our dear friend Carol Heimann.