© Photo by Kerrie Welsh
© Photo by Kerrie Welsh
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As both a choreographer and visual artist I often experiment with hybrid forms, particularly video projection and video dance, but also animation, photography, and HTML. I am interested in the aesthetics of new media, how both the form and content of technological advances (and cultural change) influence dance-making and meaning in dance.
I am interested in detail and absorption, and thus invest time in imaginative, somatic creative processes that result in a heightened sense of physicality on stage. Working within the subtle transitions between states of being and moving, my work explores dancing/performing in specific physiological and psychological states.
I am currently creating solos, duets and trios in order to work deeply in my body, develop my gestural language, and experiment with improvisational performance structures.
While these works are personal to the performers and sometimes loosely autobiographical, they are also explorations of content that is interesting to me as choreographer- loss, fear, femininity, embarrassment, control and lack of control, the passage of time, memory, physical vulnerability, pleasure, and madness.
My movement material evolves out of physical intensity, imagination, character, sensuality, human interactions, and the temporal and spatial experience of life. Lately, it also comes from a desire to be vulnerable and personal in my work, and to bring out the idiosyncrasies and individuality of other performers.