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Contact performance and video |
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coming June, 2017 | ||
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Contact (SubTerra) |
Contact (Deek) |
Based on "contact improvisation," a form of contemporary dance in which movement dialogues are developed through weight-sharing and physical touch, the three performance videos in Contact chronicle my extension of these principles into embodied engagement with site. Each of these video performance works chronicle my embodied, haptic, proprioceptive dialogues with site. While my starting place is the extension of contact improvisation techniques to my physical engagement with site, each work develops through unique and distinctive dialogues. That the application of similar physical engagement technique results in widely different dialogues and outcomes in different places highlights the particularity of all sites, and the importance and immense potential of site responsive interaction. |
coming June, 2017 |
Contact (SubTerra) performance and video Contact (SubTerra) is a work that I will perform and video in late May, 2017 as part of the In the Hole Residency on Treaty 6 territory. Contact (SubTerra) will chroncile my embodied engagement with the subsurfaces of prairie land that has never been tilled.
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