the trouble with stacking bones (2019)
17 minutes
a solo that deals with the consolidation of memories and the concept of dancing one’s lineage. using a personal archive of recorded movement improvisations as source material, the work tasks the performer with live-recalling these digital entities to create a conversation between remembered, past selves and the present. the end product is a story told through text and movement composed entirely of fragments of past experiences – laying bare the process of both dance-making and memory-making.
PAST PERFORMANCES
premiere date: September 21 2019, self-produced as part of LATE/summer, a shared evening of dance and music in Vancouver BC presented in collaboration with La Fabrique St George
June 25 2023, excerpted performance at Hnatyshyn Foundation Gala, Dominion Chalmers Centre, Ottawa ON |
choreography and performance - Calder White
music - Steinbruchel