tidewater studies is an invitation into observance of the tides and ecological time. The performance piece was built in relation to the rising and falling of the day’s tides as part of the Works on Water (www.worksonwater.org) Triennial on July 31, 2021 at Governor's Island. This audio score invited audience members to experience high tide along the shoreline and engage in the act of witnessing water as it rises. 

tidewater studies

glacial erratics (we are the waking dreaming) is a performance mythology that is sourced from research on the glacial history of what is now called New York City. It is both an acknowledgement of the geologic origins of the landscape and an invocation for a post-anthropocene future. It is map, and it is memory, alive in the present moment. Through movement rituals and evolving soundscapes, the piece honors the transformative potential of deep time, monumentality, and communication with what is unseen. The performance reminds us of the guidance of remembrance and reverence, for what has been and what has yet to become. 

glacial erratics (we are the waking dreaming)

glacial erratics is a body of research and form of ceremony that allows space for embodiments of care, kinship, grief, and rebellion with and for the more-than-human world. glacial erratics focuses specifically on the transformation of glacial ice and its retreating existence from our planet. It asks how dancing for more-than-human life is a way to remember, re-encounter, and embody a futurity that is yet to be known. 

glacial erratics honors the existence of more-than-human origin stories, and how beings like glaciers shape the ground beneath our feet. It also focuses on what can live inside the aftermath of decay, what emerges from the rubble left behind. It honors listening through the ground, becoming loyal to it; the body as conduit; listening for the hum of the world. Dance as a form of remediation, healing, and survival.

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