A 102-year-old sharecropper, Tarkovsky, and six dancers walk into a bar called grief.
A multimedia performance including film, live narration and dance, How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? explores loss and transcendence experienced in human partnerships. Reflecting on his relationship with 102-year-old former sharecropper, carpenter and gardener Walter Carter as well as Andrei Tarkovsky’s science fiction classic, Solaris, Lemon and 6 dancers create a performance which arcs from turbulent physicality to restorative grace.
Direction
Lemon's live narration bridges film and flesh in real time.
Cinematography
Solaris haunts every frame without a single spaceship.
Acting
Walter Carter's presence—102 years of witness.
Director
Ralph Lemon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lemon's 'Geography' trilogy—this is part two—redefined contemporary dance by centering Black rural elders as co-creators, not subjects.
The title comes from Carter's wife asking exactly this; Lemon heard it as both accusation and existential koan.
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