FROM HERE
FROM HERE was developed in collaboration with performer Maree ReMalia over the course of two residencies. From April 7-9, 2016, I was a Visiting Artist/Scholar at Middlebury College. We began making the dance during those days, and culminated in an informal showing of the piece. Maree was then a Visiting Artist at Denison University from April 20-23, 2016. FROM HERE was premiered on April 23, 2016, at 7pm in the Knapp Performance Space at Denison University.
When we began working on this dance, our research was directed by several guiding investigations. First, we were interested in discovering what movement pathways or ways of moving became available specifically because of our collaboration —Maree's body, knowledge, kinesthetic habits and capacities engaging with my directions, interests, and knowledge. Through this process, we each came to ways of moving and seeing that emerged from this particular choreographic research. We were also motivated by the question: where can a body go from where it is? how can a body go from where it is? These were questions of space and effort, questions about one's own place and the ways in which a body extends from its place, the way it leaves that place, and sometimes how it returns to it. In the process, I also became interested in the effort of the movement, the corporeal labor of the choreography and the physical exertion necessary to perform it.
When we began working on this dance, our research was directed by several guiding investigations. First, we were interested in discovering what movement pathways or ways of moving became available specifically because of our collaboration —Maree's body, knowledge, kinesthetic habits and capacities engaging with my directions, interests, and knowledge. Through this process, we each came to ways of moving and seeing that emerged from this particular choreographic research. We were also motivated by the question: where can a body go from where it is? how can a body go from where it is? These were questions of space and effort, questions about one's own place and the ways in which a body extends from its place, the way it leaves that place, and sometimes how it returns to it. In the process, I also became interested in the effort of the movement, the corporeal labor of the choreography and the physical exertion necessary to perform it.