from the film Henry House by Jen Mesch

Henry House

Henry House is a film directed by Jen Mesch with text and music by Nate Wooley

Henry House is an expression of a kind of American “everyone,” with all of their faults and false footing, their moments of success and regret. The work features a cento text based on heavily manipulated phrases from Reiner Stach’s Kafka biography and John Berryman’s Dream Songs. The texts were stitched together and compulsively rewritten by Wooley in order to create a loose and billowing character, Henry House, whose life is eulogized by an unknown narrator. The work for this film stemmed from studies for a larger cycle of Henry House songs that were released on January 16th, 2025 on Ideologic Organ, but Mesch has found a new dimension to the House songs by putting the composer’s body in space and time. Whether he is the narrator or the eponymous House, we are never quite sure.

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Henry House Recordings
GWLI photo for MZD

Go Where Light Is – March 16-18, 2023

I look back one more time. It’s like a crater, a hole where something happened.

-Emma Donoghue

 

A new choreographic work by Jen Mesch, Go Where Light Is debuts at Mile Zero Dance March 16-18, 7:30 pm. Buy tickets here.

Music by Evidence (Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood)

Dance performed by Giovanni Young, Raena Waddell, Deanne Underwood, Jason Romero, Philip Kloc, Alida Kendell, Alison Kause, Bridget Jessome and Kathleen Hughes

Live video projections by aAron Munson, set design by aAron Munson with Larry Kelly

The evening will feature a second set by Evidence performing live with dance by Jen Mesch, Gerry Morita, Stacey Murchison and Nancy Sandercock and projections by aAron Munson.