Margaret Jenkins and Rinde Eckert
Migratory Passages

From the solitary birds to the flocking birds, from the baggage of culture to the nature of culture, from the water to the sky, from the ritual of death, the divorce from the garden, from the funeral of drowned diver to the mythos of ibis or swan... For the 2021 ODC Theater Festival, Margaret Jenkins and Rinde Eckert premiere a new duet thematically related to their previous 3 duets: Shorebirds Atlantic, And So They, and Shadows & Water. As they shed their birdwatching gear they become more birdlike, the weight of a stone monkey countered now by the lightness of the image of the migratory birds rising from the clear lake to disappear in the distance on their way north or south to one home or another.