Sea of Common Catastrophe

They went down very deep, to where the light of the sun and then the light of the sea stopped, and things were only visible in their own light.  They passed a submerged village, with men and women on horseback turning about a musical carousel.  It was a splendid day, and there were brightly colored flowers on the terraces.  “Here a Sunday sank at about eleven o'clock in the morning,” Mr. Herbert said.  “It must have been some cataclysm.”
— Gabriel García Márquez

Inspired by a passage from Gabriel García Márquez's novella Sea of Lost Time—a town drowns on a Sunday afternoon but persists, submerged, in its daily life, as if the deluge had never occurred—Sea of Common Catastrophe follows the journey of four companions as they wade through a continually changing landscape built upon the fragments of their own displaced communities.

With deep consideration of the profound transformations that swept through New Orleans in the decade after Hurricane Katrina, and of our own roles and responsibilities as artists in the realities of gentrification and displacement, Sea was developed with a devised ensemble process in which visual design elements drive the dramaturgy of the piece: Jeff Becker's sculptural innovation, Courtney Egan's magical video projections, Jeffrey Gunshol's liquid choreography and ArtSpot's physical performance-making style and original music create a dream-world imagining of a community inundated by a flood of change and upheaval.