TiLTING VERTICALITIES (exercise #±1 ) nests and expands the choreographic language of movement, and dance from my lived experiences as a dance artist. It resembles a spatial meditation sensed in direct relation to another, liberating a non-verbal, pre-linguistic form of knowledge. Like in dancing, moving collaboratively, this exercise redefines the unifying act of peaceful engagement through being in touch.
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Holding each other as we nurture new perspectives, bringing one's own equilibrium into balance, while sharing our unique ways of moving, counterbalancing, and being moved—engaging with the choreographies and architecture of each given space.
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Each loop sculpture and elastic painting serves as a expanded documentation of the performance, becoming an object of experience that resonates into the future.
Beyond this performative moving installation, immersive choreographic process, and participatory practice, TiLTING VERTICALITIES invites us to (re)animate and sustain dances, rituals, conversations, and different dimensions of being.
Its first public iteration premiered at the 58th Venice Art Biennale, by invitation of James Putnam—independent curator, writer, and former founding curator of the British Museum’s Contemporary Arts and Cultures Programme. It was also presented at Giudecca Art District as part of the Biennale’s flagship exhibition, Body As Home, by invitation of Miguel Mallol.
Other iterations have been presented at Tate Archive and the Public Records Catalogue at Tate Britain as part of a collective exhibition with the Royal College of Art's Situated Practice group, Archive(r), and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome during its exhibition program, MACRO ASILO.
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Thank you to all the dance artists holding hands with me, with this work and these images here: Alexandra Baybutt, Pepa Ubera, Lizzy Le Quesne, Carolyn Roy, Laura Doehler, Marina Collard, Iris Chan, including photographers Anne Tetzlaff and Nikki Tomlison..
