TOWARD BELONGING
On April 29 and 30, 2015, I premiered a new dance work entitled TOWARD BELONGING, featuring performers Phil Brown Dupont, Justin Fitch, Eve Hermann, and Counterfeit Madison. The piece moves through the mechanics and formal dimensions of sociality, the physical vocabularies of how bodies are together. It examines how bodies follow one another along paths that are straight or along trajectories that veer queerly, how they fall in line and out of step, how they carry one another along and are moved by what other people do, how they gather and separate.
TOWARD BELONGING was presented in two different spaces, allowing for multiple views of the same work. On April 29, the piece was performed in Barnett Theater in Sullivant Hall at The Ohio State University. On April 30, the piece was presented in the studio space in which it was choreographed and rehearsed, situating it within the architectural conditions of its production, from which aspects of the choreography derive their dimensions.
Choreography: Michael J. Morris
Performers:
Phil Brown Dupont
Justin Fitch
Eve Hermann
Counterfeit Madison
Recorded Text: Judith Butler
The spoken text was written by the performers.
Music: RuPaul
TOWARD BELONGING was presented in two different spaces, allowing for multiple views of the same work. On April 29, the piece was performed in Barnett Theater in Sullivant Hall at The Ohio State University. On April 30, the piece was presented in the studio space in which it was choreographed and rehearsed, situating it within the architectural conditions of its production, from which aspects of the choreography derive their dimensions.
Choreography: Michael J. Morris
Performers:
Phil Brown Dupont
Justin Fitch
Eve Hermann
Counterfeit Madison
Recorded Text: Judith Butler
The spoken text was written by the performers.
Music: RuPaul