FRAY the story: A visual deep dive into the delicate thread that holds love together, and how that same thread which bonds us can also be the source of our unraveling.

This is a film based on the story of an “unraveling” set in the landscape of music and lyrics written by Lucy Woodward & David Garza, in a song that was recorded at Sonic Ranch at the border of Texas and Mexico. The story opens up a conversation between the head and the heart, the heart being the wiser of the two. We witness the dialogue and dance unfold, as the head speaks in threads of ice blue, and the heart in threads of fiery orange. 

It features Lucy dancing and entangled in thread, along with two dancers who have their own conversation with the thread as they are wrapped in a sweater made-for-two. The sweater is the centerpiece of the film, as it represents the heart and was designed and knitted to be “pulled” and unraveled in one take. It was directed, conceptualized and choreographed by Caroline Le Duc, who is also featured as one of the main dancers of the film. It also features renowned dancer and movement artist, Baptista Kawa who is a performing artist in Jacob Jonas The Company. 

As Lucy attempts to wrap up and pack the different pieces of herself and a complicated love into boxes, she gets tangled in the truth, that love remains complexly intertwined … even when it’s unraveled. She observes the two dancers, that are moving in and out of connection, within the sweater made of the thread that binds them. Lucy not only observes the dancers and witnesses her own unraveling reflected in theirs, but more profoundly, she is the one pulling the thread.