Creative Team:

Dancers:

Alice Astarita 

Abby Button 

Ella Jong 

Aurora Lagattuta 

Dulce Rodríguez-Ponciano 

Alisha Solan 

Jade Solan

 Dianna Valdes- Contreras

 

Musicians:

Mari Kawamura (vocalist) 

Kathryn Schulmeister (double bassist) 

Jasper Sussman (composer and vocalist)

 

Choreography: Aurora Lagattuta

Stage Manager: Willie Mae Michiels

Costume Design: Dorottya Vincze

Set Design: Yi-Chien Lee

Lighting Design: Minjoo Kim

Sound Assistance: Zhongran (Carren) Wang

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Creator's  Statement

 

Choreographically, I am inspired by my research with the oceanographers. I am looking at various energy patterns from waves, clouds and light frequencies. The patterns of deep ocean waves, surface waves, cloud formations, light wave frequencies and pendulums all reveal information about the exchanges between diverse elements. I am also researching the patterns of body fluids particularly in the work of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Throughout these patterns, the contrasting components work to instill a greater systemic harmony. I am curious about the underlying nature of fluid and energy to find itself through “other-ness.” This complimentary opposition has been a framework for creating choreographic material with the dancers. This data also connects to an over-arching interest in things which connect, link and weave us: spider webs, stories, breath, light, water, sound, women, dreaming, hugs, the senses, and…I see dance as a means for social and environmental improvement through the act of felt interconnection. My work turns to dance to create open, inclusive, diverse and compassionate dancing places. For me, dance is an embodied knowing of oneself, others and the environment. To dance is be in a sometimes silent, moving, irrational exploration with place and other. Thus, I am interested in untamed and natural human movements with place, particularly places we live within. These dancing places are both within and without us, evolving with every breathe and re-meeting us in each moment as they unearth the unknowable threads between us. The practice of dancing responds with a gentle attention, a kindness and a responsible freedom in this intimately vast world that we dance together.