“It was a like a dream I didn’t want to end!”
– Audience member

Secrets and Seawalls is an evening of dance in two distinct acts. Inspired by storms and disruption, Melissa Riker, in collaboration with architect Lee H. Skolnick, FAIA, uses methods of dance and architecture to explore vulnerability, power and how each are revealed.

Dancers whisper across an expanse and move behind walls; stealing and sharing secrets in a shifting, immersive environment.

The piece is spurred by questions: Does power exist in the structures we create? In the way we withhold information? Or, is it in the vulnerability revealed before the storm?