I miss my friends. they died a year ago. so many have died since. holding then in me, bringing them with me A few years ago I was at a performance and the lady near me was trying to describe how she felt being there how it physically feels witnessing as a participation, thinking as a physical action frustrated she said: Maybe I could stand next to you and vibrate? as if vibrating her experience would could be the only way to accurately offer to another her state of being that stuck with me and every time i think of how it feels to be *there* *there* with friends, with dance, with strangers that maybe instead of putting into words or into movement or into picture or into form i could just stand next to you + vibrate. |
if dance
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if dance is an excuse to practice being
if being is an excuse to practice being together Then let's consider this a practice i cant tell you how this is about death and now sometimes i think about my shadow, did she leave me? I thought I had seen you on another path A hum, a small frequency close enough to be a shadow Inside the outline of me small action I recognize the slope of your shoulder, quietly content now. Do you know how many muscles it takes? may i be here, standing. Frustrated, she asked As if vibrating her experience w/could be the only way to accurately offer to another her state of being that stuck with me and every time i think of how it feels to be t/here that maybe instead of putting into words or into movement or into picture or form i could just stand next to you + vibrate |
maybe I could stand next to you and vibrate, documentation by Yanan Yu and Shana Crawford
Home Room: Live + In Person from ANTE Mag. In collaboration with Leah Carrell Chashama Midtown, Nov - Dec 2021.
Slow Burn: Anywhere but Here (group show) at 250 Bowery, March 22 - May 10 2021
Foot In The Door (group show) at the Minneapolis Institute of Art November 2020
Line Death Dance (newsletter) through Melanie Maar July 2020
Home Room: Live + In Person from ANTE Mag. In collaboration with Leah Carrell Chashama Midtown, Nov - Dec 2021.
Slow Burn: Anywhere but Here (group show) at 250 Bowery, March 22 - May 10 2021
Foot In The Door (group show) at the Minneapolis Institute of Art November 2020
Line Death Dance (newsletter) through Melanie Maar July 2020
Held by Light, performed with Aubrey Donisch, choreographed with Aubrey Donisch and Mikah Baumrin-Daniels. Music by Iris Lune, cinematography by George MacLeod, video by Shana Crawford. Filmed in New York City, NY, Philadelphia, PA, and Minneapolis, MA 2022.