Thank You For Coming

This was our first film collaboration with Soap Impressions, a dance-film production company creating character-driven films inspired by dance-theater and early cinema. Thank You For Coming, directed by Joaquin Bear and Lucia Flexer-Marshall and choreographed and performed by Sasha Marlan-Librett, is inspired by existential premises regarding the mechanisms of self-creation and explores the degree to which a person has agency within the execution of their obligations. Premiering first at Gibney in February of 2023, the film shows our character tumbling through New York City, charging thoughtlessly down the street, becoming manipulated by invisible forces. She finally falls into a dream world that becomes the stage on which Marlan-Librett’s live dance piece is performed later that evening.