flinch/speck

Performed at Gibney Dance, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Danspace Project’s Draftwork, and National Sawdust (2016-2017)

 It is a wave with mass, or a mass with wave. If I tickle you here, you might feel it there tomorrow. In its measure you will modify.

Created in collaboration with dancers Lea Fulton, Alvaro Gonzalez, and Ariel Lembeck, flinch/speck responds to the phenomenon of Quantum Entanglement - the spectacle that occurs when groups of particles are intertwined with other particles spatially separated. It is a performance practice generated through the application of scores and improvisations which map patterns of light, mass and wave throughout the body, as well as Neutrinos, small particles that have the spooky ability to shape shift while traveling through space. This work considers the hard and soft data of how communities of bodies and light entangle.

 This work was made alongside an original sound score performed and created by electronic musician Zubin Hensler and with the research assistance of Eric Litman.

flinch/speck

Choreography: Elisabeth Motley
Dancers: Lea Fulton, Alvaro Gonzalez, Ariel Lembeck, Elisabeth Motley
Original Music for Trumpet/Electronics: Zubin Hensler

Performed at Gibney Dance's Work Up 2.4 April, 2016 NYC and at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

Film: Scott Shaw
Trailer editing by: Laura Snow & produced by the feath3r theory