Archive For January 3, 2019
Tracing ancestral pathways and values- the fight to stay close to the earth, and those who abandoned her to build empire. The production involves live dance and music, interactive multimedia sound and performance installation, bodies extended through puppetry, and video projection. Vision Model staying in our bodies as resistance. Model resistance struggles as a dance….
What makes me grow? Dance chooses me. That inner child pushes me to do right by dance. So I push myself to grow. Despite lacking infrastructure for my form. Strengths Owed to the nature of nature and nurture, so far, in order to be seen, my dance has been more spontaneous and improvisational. And as…
As my training in dance was in a niche form and often interrupted by scarcity of community, opportunity or resources, I was unable to develop a studio practice early on. I have still not been able to take a substantial choreography class and continue to lean on my practical understanding of dance dramas I gleaned…
Whenever I am moved to create, I try to make time – if not immediately, then within a week’s time. I experiment with contrasts and try to fill space with movement phrases that resonate with energy and emotion. I root into the various dance bodies I work with and choose the one most appropriate for…
My choreographic voice is a story-telling voice. My choreographic voice comes in song, dance, poetry, play of light, shadow and childhood games. My choreographic voice manifests the tempest within, wrestling with, struggling against and visioning joyful dreams despite the genocidal human cultures without. How I generate movement: I generate movement by listening more and more…