and the snow fell softly on all the living and the dead was conceived as a staged installation by Della Davidson and Ellen Bromberg with choreography and media design by Ellen Bromberg in collaboration with Kegan Marling and the dancers.

The second half of the evening celebrating the work of Della Davidson, Department of Theatre and Dance professor 2001-12 who died this past March from breast cancer, includes choreography, performances and a film by her long-time collaborators from Sideshow Physical Theatre and members of the Bay Area dance community.

The title of and the snow fell softly on all the living and the dead derives from the famous James Joyce poem, The Dead. Visual elements, including live video of various perspectives onstage, play a large role in a meditative environment of changing light, forms and sound. Performers exist in vignettes as images that rise and fall in time and space, engaging ideas of life, beauty and loss.

Thursday-Saturday, May 31-June 2 at 8 p.m.; Sunday, June 3 at 2 p.m.