HUGELY AMPLIFIED PRESENT

Multi-media performance project
Created, choreographed and directed by Dayna Hanson
with Jim Fletcher, Julia Sloane, Heather Kravas and Jim Kent

Hugely Amplified Present is a time-based work of live dance, performance, and film with an original score by Dana Wachs/Voorhees. Conceived as a rigorously analog ensemble piece, it features Heather Kravas, Jim Fletcher, Julia Sloane, and Jim Kent, with guest artists appearing on film. The work unfolds in three intersecting sections that speak to one another through shared ideas of precision, measurement, and the unseen forces that drive human behavior.

The Install is rooted in the experience of professional art handlers tasked with hanging a valuable and unwieldy artwork for a blue-chip client. Interviews and physical reenactments—performed without props and later translated into staged material—form the basis for a short film with live elements performed by three actors. Themes include labor, class, status, and the friction between cooperation and individual agency.

Kit Maxey and 28 Problems expand the work’s choreographic and emotional terrain. Kit Maxey is an abstract duet and solo sequence performed by Sloane and Kravas, drawing from early-life gesture, temporal iconography, resurrected choreography from past decades, and pendulum-inspired movement. 28 Problems reimagines a unison duet originally derived from a handwritten sheet of calculus problems exchanged between two brothers, and incorporates actor Jim Fletcher in layered material involving speech, song, portrait handling, and reenactment of Bruce Nauman’s “A Violent Incident.” Across these sections, motifs of ephemerality, life stages, nostalgia, and the desire to soften disagreement recur, creating resonance across the work’s three parts.