PROJECTS

BEFORE US
2025

RICHARD SCHOLTZ
sound designs

Four women in red dresses, some hovering in the air, and others sitting on wooden benches with contemplative facial expressions.

WAITING
2024

Two women in white blissfully falling as their hair flows upward in front of a digital projection of abstracted water.

TIDAL
2023

A 1970's man numbly sitting on a couch with a remote control in his hand, while a woman in a floral dress dives over the arm of the couch to reach for it.

HOUSEHOLD HAZARDS
2024

Two women relaxing in chairs, wearing colorful clothing, leaning back while holding their toes with one leg stretched out.

LEAN IN
2022

Line drawing by Mia Cullen with a black background and white lines tangled together emulating bodies limbs reaching, creating an abstract circle.

EMERGING SUITE
2022

Five performers wearing colorful clothing, all trying to ride one bicycle with their arms out, exuding curious and adventurous spirits.

SPOKES
Fall 2019

A highly zoomed in hazel eye with typewriter text laid over the skin.

RIGHT TO RECOGNITION
2022

Three woman standing and smiling, wearing caridgons and matronly pleaded skirts, all feeling so excited and giddy.

THREADS
Fall 2017

A tall young adult wearing a large piece of fabric as a skirt, blissfully leaning backward as if he's being swept by the waves that are being digitally projected onto the background and the fabric.
Two women facing each other in a low embrace, while also using each other for support, both wearing nude, almost see-through, flowy jumpers.
POSITIVE A man wearing a suit and tie flying up in the air in a side curved position, expressing a complex emotion of longing yet release.
A young woman and a small girl walking and leaning forward, with the girl's feet balanced on the woman's feet, with a feeling of trepidation.
A group of four performers all in different places on the somewhat ominous stage, focussing on one man wearing business casual attire and leaning to the side, being held up by a long stick.
A childlike man and woman sitting at a small table side-by-side in matching green shirts, leaning forward with mischievous looks on their faces.

THE FAMILY PROJECT
Fall 2012

A man crawling on the floor with a woman relaxed lying backwards draped over his back, with her legs reaching upwards toward the ceiling, parallel to one of his lengthened legs.
A strong woman lifting another muscular woman on her back, who is draped backwards over her shoulders, almost as if in a graceful and supportive battle.
The backs of an older man holding hands with a young boy walking towards the water down an inclined dock, wearing matching casual outfits.
Older man and woman sitting in chairs facing each other and wholesomely smiling and laughing.
A zoomed in face of an older woman in her 80s, showing the intricate lines and pathways of her wrinkles. She is cradling her face with her hands, with a sly smirk on her face.
An older woman and young girl facing each other, playfully holding their hands up to match each other, similar to Pat-a-cake. Both are wearing black.
A middle-aged man enthusiastically throwing up a baby boy with Down Syndrome outdoors. The boy is wearing a diaper and expressing joy throughout his entire body.
A woman in the nude sitting on the ground with her knees bent and tucked up to her chest. Her head is down and resting on her knees, with her arms loosely wrapped around her legs.
A pregnant woman balancing on a rock outdoors doing a relaxed ballet pose in "back attitude" with her arms gracefully reaching up to the sky.

COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONS

Two women in red dresses, one in the foreground with her arms and chest unfurled and exposed experiencing pleasure, while the woman in the background has her arms crossed and snug to her chest demonstrating confinement.

BREAKING SILENCE
SPRING 2018

IN HOME PERFORMANCES

A woman in a peach dress relaxing on a chair in a library holding a book over her head. The pages from the book are falling on her and she is blissfully immersed inside of the story.
Inside of a living room, a man intimately lifts a woman in a blue dress as she hangs on his shoulder and trepidatiously reaches her toes towards a wooden coffee table.
 

SCREENDANCES

A dancer looking up and standing on top of Bruce Nauman's stair-like "Stadium Piece" sculpture located at Western Washington University.

SCREENDANCES MADE DURING EARLY MONTHS OF COVID
MARCH, APRIL, MAY 2020

A young boy sitting in a chair holding a basketball intently watching a young girl moving quickly and enthusiastically playing basketball.

FROM WHERE THEY ARE
FALL 2020

A young adult couple in a side embrace, both looking down, standing outside in the middle of a large chicken run with over a dozen chickens running around them.

STAY
Winter 2018

A carefree older man on a stage reaching up to the sky with ease, with a stage light shining towards the camera behind him.
A happy baby boy sitting on the floor with his smitten mother laying on the floor holding and lovingly gazing at him.
An older woman from the back wearing a skirt suit pushing a hospital bed on wheels down a long two-lane road outdoors.

SITE-SPECIFIC PROJECTS

An adult woman in movement on the floor with her legs intertwined and torso twisted around, wearing a colorful hand-made dress.

DECODED THREADS
Fall 2017

Shadows of two women in movement, curved over one another, creating negative space between them—all with humanlike wire sculptures behind them.
Four dancers with fairly stoic expressions lofted and hovering in the air in unisen, wearing padestrian clothes in front of a huge, glistening, hairlike artwork installment by Lesley Dill.

WORLD DANCE PROJECT

A large group of adults playing musical instruments from Brazil while children are learn and dance Capoeira in a circle together outdoors.

WORLD DANCE PROJECT

2015