Anna sits onstage, lit in silhouette. Lighting is pink and purple.

FEATURE PRESENTATION - duet, 75 min

Feature Presentation is a series of dance theater vignettes that explore how we perform curated versions of ourselves in our everyday lives. The work moves through sections of precise, technical, and gestural dancing interspersed with humorous theatrical sections in which Barker and Wilks address the audience and each other. Through their collaboration, they explore a variety of topics: how we all have to perform different versions of ourselves in different facets of our lives (whether or not we’re up to it), how performers painstakingly put their best foot forward time and time again in the face of adversity, how self-performance is highly curated in social media, how we analyze and address personal success- and how that “success” is conceived and demonstrated in our culture.

“It’s not that the performance hurt or upset me—on the contrary, it was bitingly clever and gorgeously, generously executed—but that it placed me and, I suspect, others in unusually close proximity to difficult artistic labors that often stay backstage.”- Michaela Dwyer

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Feature Presentation named in Indy Week’s “The Best of 2016 in Theater, Dance, Books, and Film”.

Leah and Anna wear workout gear. They jump and give enthusiastic thumbs up to the audience.
Leah and Anna lie on the ground in a birthing-like position.
Leah and Anna sit with Patience onstage for a mid-show talkback.
Leah and Anna have a conversation. They sit on stools.
Anna and Leah pose in front of a white brick wall. Anna wears a gold unitard with a black fish scale design. Leah wears a yellow gold jacket and shiny blue pants. She reaches upwards.
Leah and Anna wear red jumpsuits. They dance near the train tracks at Durham, NC's American Tobacco District.
Leah and Anna wear red jumpsuits. They are doing flying squirrel jumps in front of a grey concrete wall.
Leah carries Anna, who is wrapped around their body.