a poetry/dance/video installation which is a collaboration between choreographer/director Cid Pearlman, myself as poet/dramaturge, video artist Mara Milam, four commissioned poets JJJJJJerome Ellis, Naomi Ortiz, Willie X. Lin, and Tanaya Winder, nineteen dancers and movement artists, composer Jonathan Segel and an amazing video crew. It premiered at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, as part of the Rydell Fellows exhibition, January-March 2022.
(home)Body had its European premiere September 18-25 at the Viimsi Artium in Estonia as part of the PÕHJA KONN art festival.
(home)Body invokes complex relationships between embodiment and place. We explore questions such as: What does it feel like to be at home in your body? What are embodied experiences of home across intersections of identities and expressions? With a multiplicity of voices, dancers and poetic imaginaries, the work speaks to ideas centering home and body through personal, experimental, and topical approaches. The films involve site-specific and immersive environments both natural and built. Spaces and bodies interact in a collaborative and choreographic conversation. The intent of (home) Body is to offer a dynamic, varying and open assemblage of an interdisciplinary and intersectional art from which to draw.
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