10,000 Small Deaths

Between each breath, a tiny death – around 10,000 a day. Taking this notion as a launching point, Paula Lay’s exquisite solo work explores the very core of our physicality as we journey from non-being to being and back again. At once sexy and restrained, 10,000 Small Deaths is a work of fine details and surreal minimalism. Alone on stage, Lay is sinewy, fragile and powerful. Her use of video is artful and dramatic while the expressionist lighting isolates her in dark space, a moment of life in a blackness stretching forever beyond. This is a beautiful, brooding work of both struggle and surrender.