How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?
2010
Documentary
Drama
Overview
A multimedia performance including film, live narration and dance, How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? explores loss and transcendence experienced in human partnerships. Reflecting on his relationship with 102-year-old former sharecropper, carpenter and gardener Walter Carter as well as Andrei Tarkovsky’s science fiction classic, Solaris, Lemon and 6 dancers create a performance which arcs from turbulent physicality to restorative grace.
Cast
Ralph Lemon
Djédjé Djédjé Gervais
Darrell Jones
Gesel Mason
Okwui Okpokwasili
Omagbitse Omagbemi
David Thomson
Walter & Edna Carter
Directors
Ralph Lemon
