SINCE THOU WAST PRECIOUS IN MY SIGHT

SITE-ADAPTABLE DANCE FOR INDOOR AND OUTDOOR SPACES HAVING OPPOSITE, WEIGHT-BEARING WALLS WHERE ON AN ACCELERATING 30-MINUTE LOOP, TWO BODIES ENGAGE IN A HIGHLY ATHLETIC DUEL CONFRONTING A HABIT, DESIRE, AND GRIEVANCE TO SUBMIT.

PARED DOWN AND FREE OF ANY THEATRICAL LIGHTING OR RECORDED MUSIC, THE WORK IS EQUALLY WITNESSED BY ITS INCIDENTAL SOUNDSCAPE IN ITS HEARD DEVOTION.

Underlying research identifies frameworks for the performance of power through posture, gesture, and movement motifs, and in response, cyclical choreographies of compliance and deference that are not only adjacent, but conditioned. What is the endurance, the ceiling, the undoing of a body of trust and conviction? With an observational audience as bystander, the installation seeks to provoke and confront collective cultures and ideas about resistance versus resignation.