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Choreographic Work

ARTIST STATEMENT

My intention as a dance artist and choreographer is to generate humanizing choreographic works that cultivate empathy, introspection, and intimacy with a viewer. More specifically, works that unpack the more eccentric, neurotic, deranged, and complicated aspects of personhood and society.

I work to combine my own ideas with references to cultural memories, using retrospection to intentionally foster a sense of nostalgia in my work.

 

My work plays within the space between familiarity and distortion. I seek to highlight the extraordinary through manipulation of the mundane or ordinary features of life. My research harnesses a dancer’s ability to reimagine and expand the limits of the human body, searching for new levels of fragility, hypermobility, fluidity, and supple articulation of the spine. I am interested in the ethereal tenderness of these qualities and equally, the range of control, surrender, and absurdity that can be discovered through searching for these places.

CHOREOGRAPHIC REEL (2024)

SEVEN (2022)

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Inspired by Rheostatics' retrospective musical score on the work of the Group of Seven, SEVEN explores the internal and external environments we occupy. Through a series of solo narratives, intimate duets, and intricate group ensembles, the work captures familiar moments where solitude and companionship intersect and coexist.

Moments of fluid synchronicity are manipulated and disturbed by the internal narratives of the artists that work both in opposition and partnership to one another. The cast, featuring seven new voices in contemporary dance functions as an ecosystem itself, applying touch, isolations, and repetition in their engagement with one another, articulating the universal experience of being both alone and together.

Danse à La Carte Residency (2023)

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Explore the new research for SEVEN, in studio through Danse à la Carte's 50 hour research and creation residency.

SEVEN Teaser (2023)

Collaboration with videographer Daynis Zed, capturing 2023 residency research.

Featuring: Catherine Wilson, Elena Powell, Zachary Bastille, Adèle Ross, Rony Joaquin Figuer

Choreography: Naomi Gwynn

FACE: APPEARANCE OF FORM (2022)

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FACE: Appearance of Form is a movement study and visual interpretation of composer Yannis Kyriakides’ 2020 installation by the same title. The multimedia composition explored notions of face, not only as a manifestation of emotion and identity, but as a data set to be collected and used by external powers.

 

Complex synchronized group ensembles, duets, and trios contrasted by robotic gesture sequences and absurd facial distortion complement Kyriakides score, which moves starkly between a soft synth spatial soundscape to a severe, sterile, dystopian atmosphere. Five dancers offer a visible sensory and emotional experience of reckoning with identity, privacy, manipulation, and authoritarian power. 

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