This performance – conceptualized by Brandiff Caron and Ann Kilkelly and developed in collaboration with Megan Carney, Drew Dowdy, Shannon Turner, and guest choreographer Celeste Miller – premiered in Blacksburg, VA in Nov 2005 and in a revised version in March 2006 (as part of Women’s Month activities at Virgina Tech).
The starting point for the creation of this performance was the 2005 Choices and Challenges forum on the individual, social, and economic meanings of anti-depressant medications. A team of writers and performers collected data, stories, interviews with health professionals, original music, and movement built around issues of depression and psychotropic drug use in order to explore the often bewildering complexity of the experience, diagnosis, and treatment of depression as it has been redefined in recent years by the advent of SSRIs and other treatments for mental health conditions.