Water Thief Performance Demo

Here is a video, edited by collaborator Amy Siegel from our production of The Water Thief at SummerWorks, where we won The Contra Guys Award for New Performance Text.

Co-creation by Sean Frey and Amy Siegel
Performance Direction by Clea Minaker
Choreography by Bee Pallomina
Music led by Daniela Gesundheit


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The Water Thief

The Water Thief is an interdisciplinary performance project conceived by Sean Frey and Amy Siegel, that layers film, live performance, music and projection art. This “living film” is set in an abandoned East Coast town, where Charon maintains a clepsydra (trans. ‘water thief’), a giant clock run by water. Over three nights, he is visited by a whale and spirits from his past. On the final night, Charon enters the whale and is completely immersed in the vivid and wild world of the afterlife.

Performing at SummerWorks Festival, August 2014.

Funded by The Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council.

Bertholet Charron as Charon, film still

Betholet's Shadow, film still

The Water Clock, film still