This new work by CPR 2022 Artist-in-Residence Ayano Elson investigates the roles of labor and power in contemporary American dance-making. Using improvisatory choreographic, musical, and text-based scores, Poor Image examines sites of conflict that emerge through the process of translation. The work envisions points at which reconstruction, desire, and loss become necessary to bring unseen, implicit material closer to the surface. Leveraging the collaborative environment of CPR, for this in-progress presentation, Elson and performers use control and instability as primary poles while experimenting within fixed patterns and a fixed space. Elson will be joined by Matt Evans, Savannah Gaillard, Amelia Heintzelman, and ensemble musicians Robby Bowen, Johann Diedrick, Charlie Gangemi, Max Levin, Jemila MacEwan, Hank Mason, Livvy Marcus, and Tommy Martinez.
