Still Life uses extinction as source material for a dance installation. Taking this subject from a scientific reality, collapsing what is real and imagined, Still Life advances new methods for creation and performance. The dancer, a-body-in-life, will practice/perform with totality, living a small death when drafting ideas of decay, stillness, and the loss of verticality. The choreography, a dance/time cycle, erases material each time it is repeated. A sonic clock, layered with original and found sound, times out when the dance disappears. Still Life implicates the present moment as a point of no return, and proposes embodied public mourning through live performance. Estimated artist fee: $18,000/performance, $28,000/week.
Tour Coordinator
Morgan Thorson, Director/Choreographer/Tour Coordinator
tel 612.221.3416
Presenter Partners
American Dance Institute (Rockville, MD)
Performance Space 122 (New York, NY)
Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, MN)
Photo: Valerie Oliveiro
