liturgy|order|bridge | SCDT Riff Talks | Friday, November 30

School for Contemporary Dance and Thought | 25 Main Street | Northampton, MA ~ This emerging work imagines dance as the organizing principle in a liturgy (a ritualized public ceremony) designed to stir societal stuck places. The work seeks to reconcile the relationship between the expressive body, imagination, faith, liberation, and aesthetic impulse. What does dance do (not in service to some other discipline, but in and of itself)? What if there was an religious order comprised of dance practitioners called to enact powerful rituals that dance alone can enact? Do such dances shift the space between realms and between people? Can contemporary… read more

Privy: the home stretch …

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I think I’ve been working on this solo forever.  OK.  Four years.  I’ve been working on Privy for four years.  The process began shortly after the first iteration of (re)Birth back in 2010.  I was fortunate to begin this work while in residence at the Bates Dance Festival that summer.  I continued the work into the fall while in residence at Billing Forge Community Works.  Then it all seemed too close.  I needed distance … a little perspective.  So my focus shifted to The Garden Center and the idea of offering (re)Birth in a series of performance salons there.  Since then, Privy has returned to the front burner for stretches of time only… read more