Shadows Later
Shadows Later features my longtime collaborators Liz Charky (lighting), Matt Evans (music), Amelia Heintzelman (dance), Jade Manns (dance), and myself (dance).
The piece moves through a series of scores exploring the tension and instability between artistic collaboration, embodied stillness, sonic loudness, and the performance space itself. Informing our process has been the premise that American modern dance, as a discipline, is a political export of the postwar US. As I examine my own work, I see it through this dated lens; even unconsciously, I subject it to the same archaic value systems and aesthetic criteria that feel irrelevant to the contemporary moment.
Shadows Later mines and processes an archive of public artworks and private memories—each of which relates to the American modern dancer (broadly) and my collaborators and myself (narrowly). Together, we ask questions about these images and memories. In this new choreography, I agitate the spatial and material relationships within Pageant into a state of uncertainty, segmentation, and unexpected connection.
