Abstract
In the first place (2013), an EMPAC Dance Movie Commission based on the Renaissance book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili was installed at EMPAC last April. The link includes the first two scenes. As it opens, and as the opening text informs you, Poliphilo has fallen asleep and found himself in a wood. A second influence for the piece was the "Memory Palace" mnemonic technique. It shifted Poliphilo's "crisis of forgetting" from the Renaissance protagonist's disorientation relative to antiquity, to a disorienting relationship between personal memory and a location's historical record. With music by Erin Gee, and titles and postproduction by Patrick Kelley.