Way Back Home — Erica Felicella

Way Back Home

A collaborative performance by Danielle Georgiou and Erica Felicella

November 19, 2022

Life. At its beginning, is full of joy and youthful exuberance. We play without the fear and worry that expands within us as we grow and age. The worries of the world and mind have not yet cemented themselves into the core of our being so what does not seem possible anymore is not even the smallest of thoughts from a child’s perspective. As we grow older the weight literally of the world has the traumatic power to weigh us down creating a place of burden and loss of childhood. What seems more accessible to the eye is actually more complicated and difficult. For growing up is something born into the idea of freedom yet at the same time creates a silent force of pressure as the days pass.

Play. When we first discover that moment of joy it fills us and retains our attention. The rest of the world washes away as we lose ourselves in the perfectly present moment of time. Nothing seems too high for us to achieve as in this state we can still be and become whatever we dream. Youth is a time for us all to be free. The innocence of childhood is a gift that we so quickly shove down into our desire to conform to the world as it appears. So quickly, we lose the presence of childhood excitement. Obstacles form and what used to be a castle to climb becomes a wall of fear and worry. It is in this loss that we grow older quicker than we should. Imagine if we could harness the energy of our youth and play into our future of possibilities.

“Way Back Home”, a collaborative performance by Danielle Georgiou and Erica Felicella, hopes to take you on a journey of duality in both form and life. It is in these actions that life can release its intentions of weight and release. To swing is to find the wind in our hair, to climb is to achieve an obstacle of truth and to travel can be to distant lands. Both artists have come together to combine their unique voices and approaches to the concept and create a work that addresses not only the passing juxtapositions of play but also in the juxtaposition of self.