Project Statement
Research and play on a theme of orientation, location, and how and where we find or lose ourselves. This project lies somewhere at the intersection of movement and poetry. It asks the questions, "how do we infuse movement with meaning?" and "how does language dance and invoke dance in the body?" Inspired by Rebecca Solnit's "Field Guide to Getting Lost." Rebecca asks us to consider "a language and behind it a cultural imagination in which the self only exists in reference to the rest of the world, no you without mountains, without sun, without sky....in Wintu, it's the world that's stable, yourself that's contingent, that's nothing apart from it's surroundings."