Color Animal

Night
2018-2019
Songwriter, performer, producer
Packaging designer

NIGHT was developed as a collaboration between Municipal Ballet Co. and Color Animal. The ballet was performed on June 8 & 9, 2018, at Commonwealth Studios in South Salt Lake. Choreography by Jo Blake, Hannah Bowcutt, Sara Borazan, Sarah Longoria, Nora Price, and Chase Wise. Performed by Hannah Bowcutt, Amy Falls, Mary Jessie Floor, Sarah Lund, Ursula Perry, Nora Price, Stacie Riskin, Tristana Yegge, and Joni Wilson. Juggling by David Ayala and Tim Dwyer. Film by Ben Estabrook. Special thanks to Hillary Musgrove-Kirkland, Chad Kirkland, Cody Kirkland, Commonwealth Studios, and Fisher Beer.

NIGHT was inspired by La Ballet de la Nuit — a ballet created in 1653, in the court of Louis XIV, which lasted through the night, from sunset until dawn — and by Valarie Kaur’s Watch Night Service speech, which includes the concept, “What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb, but the darkness of the womb?” With these foundations, Sarah Longoria and Andrew Shaw produced the NIGHT ballet as an examination of the darknesses in our current cultures and our hope that, when light drives out this darkness, it will bear a worldwide culture founded in dignity for all individuals, supportive communities, and revolutionary love.

Album released April 19, 2019.

Color Animal is Felicia Baca, Tyler Ford, Seth Howe, and Andrew Shaw. Additional guitars by Michael Sasich. Music by Color Animal. Lyrics by Andrew Shaw. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Michael Sasich at Man v Music. Photography by Chad Kirkland. Illustration by Evan Jed Memmott. Layout and design by Andrew Shaw.