Dialog(s)
- a conversation through movement
- an invitation to express by initiating and responding
- an opportunity to support through observation
Dialog(s) is a movement conversation between two seated individuals. One chair will be empty, waiting for you to sit down and make a gesture. In the other will be someone ready to make a connection with you: responding and offering movements of their own. This is an invitation to see and be seen, to be playful and spontaneous, and to possibly surprise yourself.
Dialog(s) is a part of the larger work Emerging Suite. Read on…
As we move together out of isolation, Emerging Suite is an opportunity to investigate the healing and evocative power of movement in community. Can we move forward more thoughtfully - acknowledging the hard truths in our world - while embodying our full capacity for empathy and grace towards one another? This movement suite invites listening, seeing, and being together. It invites forming connections while welcoming the range of emotions we have.
Three pieces make up Emerging Suite:
Dialog(s), Passage, and Murmuration.
These pieces will be offered at various times and places in Whatcom County over the next several months.
You are invited to participate or you are invited to witness. Read on to learn how.
images by Mia Cullen
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Read about Dialog(s) in the Cascadia Daily News here.
Dialog(s)
- a conversation through movement
- an invitation to express by initiating and responding
- an opportunity to support through observation
Dialog(s) is a movement conversation between two seated individuals. One chair will be empty, waiting for you to sit down and make a gesture. In the other will be someone ready to make a connection with you: responding and offering movements of their own. This is an invitation to see and be seen, to be playful and spontaneous, and to possibly surprise yourself.
Dialog(s) is inspired by similar performance work that focused on acknowledging another’s presence. Beyond mere presence, this work focuses on communication.
February 4th, 2022 5-9 PM Whatcom Museum Lightcatcher building in the Whatcom Museum’s exhibit "Upclose and Personal...the Body in Contemporary Art" Curated by Amy Chaloupka, from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky.
February 19th, 2022 1-5 PM Firehouse Arts Center, private Dialog(s) in the Firehouse studio.
April 25th - May 13th, 2022 9:30-4:30 M-TH WWU B Gallery
Passage
- a meditation through space in time
- an opportunity to remember or consider
- an invitation to move through or beyond
Passage is a slow, meditative, directional walk. While making a journey across a designated space, participants are invited to consider living through this time. While focusing on what is important (remembering a loved one or event, contemplating growth or change, noticing their experience) it is the hope that all involved will feel empowered to move forward with purpose, both during and after this event. Participants are asked to wear all white to make a visual indication of connection.
Passage is inspired by Isamu Noguchi and his work "Skyviewing."
”Art for me is something which teaches human beings how to become more human.” Noguchi
At least one Passage will take place in Red Square and will move to and through the "Skyviewing" sculpture.
Murmuration
- an opportunity to move in concert with others
- an invitation to try something new
- a time to be playful
Murmuration is moving with others, it is an unscripted dance. Several experienced movers will be present at a designated location. Their role is to help lead and respond to all, while discovering ways to coalesce and move as a group. You are invited to join in this movement, adjusting for your own skill or ability. Murmuration is an opportunity to be with individuals moving as one organic whole...perhaps an opportunity to reclaim our sense of community and togetherness.
Murmuration is inspired by flocking, an exercise often found in Modern or Contemporary Technique dance classes. Flocking is an improvisational structure that invites participants to pay attention to others and move with them, in unison, much like birds flocking.
This project is supported in part by a grant from the Washington State Arts Commission.
