Collaboration
Working with others in the creative process is one of the main aspects of my work. Community is my answer to why dance?
Visual artist, Nemo Miller and I have been striving to find parallels between two different mediums, dance and clay. As humans, we do not have the capacity to be permanent. We age, we change, we get injured, etc. Clay, however, has this capacity. In the ceramic process, clay will be wet and pliable. It will respond to our touch. Over time clay will dry, shrink, and tighten. Once the clay has been through the first firing, called the “bisque” firing, it is no longer moldable. It becomes “permanent.” By documenting the dancers’ experience in the wet clay and then firing the clay, we have made this piece “permanent.”
Life and Art Intersect Albums
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I am interested in creating the work I want to perform in or see. I want to engage in practices with myself and others to build community. After giving a specific prompt, I say yes to the impulse in the mover’s body. As the process develops, I say yes synchronicities. Many times, my process involves visiting alterative spaces and reimagining spaces that live inside the collective unconscious of the dance, which develops over time. After spending time observing these creative environments and listening to the conversation within the dance, I craft a collage of what has happened.
Always acknowledging the practice that became the performance simultaneously
No expectation
Always continuing to explore what is alive and growing inside this score or set material
No expectation
Always striving to face the reality of these creative problems
No expectation
Always diving into more…upstream
Let go of expectation
Always this practice as a way of life
Trust
The moment I knew I was destined to be an artist was when my journal for life and dance could no longer be separated.
SURRENDER
"Past remembered and futures initiation. Every process leads into the next."
