SELECTED WORK SAMPLES
Adjusted for Inflation (2018 - 2020)
​Adjusted for Inflation was inspired in part by Douglas Hofstadter’s book, Gödel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, in which Hofstadter proposes “strange loops” in formal mathematical systems – recursive loops which allow the systems in which they exist to “perceive themselves” – as a metaphor for consciousness.
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In Adjusted for Inflation, two dancers are sealed inside of inflatable vinyl balls. Over time, the repeated gestures of this dance decay and germinate in correlation with the fatigue and exertion of the dancers, the momentum of the balls, and the rate at which an action affects the next of its kind in a chain.
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The development of this work was supported by the GO! Emerging Artist Commission at the Elizabeth STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (January-June 2019), and by the Artist-in-Residence program at the Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation / Chez Bushwick (September-December 2019).
​Footage above is from the GO! Emerging Artist Commissioning Program showing at the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics, June 2019
performed by Kailey McCrudden and Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
The Bramblewatlz (2017 - 2019)
InThe Bramblewaltz, two to six dancers explore softness and power, effort and ease, within accumulating patterns that becomes an invisible architecture.
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April 2019 rehearsal at Mount Tremper Arts for a DraftWork performance at Danspace Project, scheduled for February 2020 but canceled due to COVID-19
Dancers: Kailey McCrudden and Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
Sound (live) by Ashur Rayis
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Rehearsal stills from Mount Tremper Arts, April 2019
Dancers: Kailey McCrudden, Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone, Dorothy Chen, Krissy Harris, and Thryn Saxon
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Performance stills from Fresh Tracks at New York Live Arts studio showing, June 2017
performed by Sophie Zuehl, Dorothy Chen, and Krissy Harris
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structure monster | joy machine (2015 - 2017)
An accumulating circular movement pattern gradually wears out its dancers. The movement’s languid style is thrown into tension by the dance’s formal, rule-bound score — which features punishing repetition. As the choreography's patterns pick up speed and the dancers fatigue, they must, paradoxically, relax, softening into momentum, into the arms of the dance itself. Then they fly. The dance churns softness into power.
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Performance stills from Fresh Tracks showcase at New York Live Arts, January 2017
performed by Dorothy Chen and Sophie Zuehl
Work-in-progress showing, Movement Research at the Judson Church, May 2016
performed by Sophie Zuehl, Greta Hartenstein, Dorothy Chen and Samantha Sherman
i AM AN EMPATH (2014 - 2015)
Movement study tracing how softness, even in exhaustion, gathers force and power through sustained circular momentum
Gibney Dance, Work Up 1.1 showing, April 2015
performance by Sophie Zuehl
sound by Ashur Rayis
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Check iT! Dance Festival: A Celebration of Female Choreographers, June 2014
performed by Dorothy Chen, Ben Demarest, Greta Hartenstein, Allison Hurd, Tavish Miller, Samantha Sherman, Sophie Zuehl
sound by Ashur Rayis
video courtesy of Stephen Speliotos
albatross (2013 - 2015)
Four to six movers investigate energetic unison, forging cohesion across stark differences in training, experience, and physicality.