WATER CYCLE SOLO SERIES

vessel of intergenerational, transpersonal water - carrying, moving, meeting pain and imagination

a reckoning with inheritance and transformation in connection to trauma, water, womb, and gender

THIS SERIES BEGAN AS AN EVAPORATION on the seashore of Greece on the precipice of the death of a loved one facing cancer. My body was the Venn diagram of Grief and Celebration. There are many stories of water in this story. Many bodies of water in this story. Nevertheless, a transcendent experience happened there, on the seashore of Greece. Then, in Corfu at a dance festival I was asked to study my body moving as dry ice. It wasn’t the initiation, but on path towards what was to come. The ask that helped me see me, helped move my meditation into dance. This left a mark, one I sometimes forget as my body belongs to me and also it can be challenging to take the seed from a teacher, a man that asks your body to move. And at this time, I was moving, I remembered I loved to move, and so movement returned. When I returned to New York, I was asked to perform at a salon. I put together what was emerging in me into the context of an improvisational dance : Evaporation, I believe. Then came condensation and sublimation (one was more bodily, and the other more spoken contemplation in weight). Next, was a fuller performance at the end of my time researching in residency at Once Upon Water in Toronto Canada in 2018.

This performance series is a weaving of improvisational spoken word and movement exploring and reckoning with consciousness, my female lineage and form, and emotional body through bodies of water phase changes - evaporation, condensation, sublimation etc. Tied into these stories of body and water are my mother, my blood, body + gender dysmorphia, and romance as it pertains to particles, heat, speed, and embodiment. This performance work gave rise to a evening length solo show called phased(un)fazed.

Another way to communicate this project :

Improvisational Solo Work confronting the inheritance of my womanhood, patriarchal limitations of self worth, and the poetics of embodiment.

Over time I see this piece as a reckoning with vessel, with trauma and spiritual awareness, spilling water and holding water, freezing and evaporating, with flesh, mind, and emotion.

Transpiration is the 4th solo in a series of solos devised around the water cycle in relation to the personal experience of consciousness. Each solo is a structured improvisation featuring live musings of body and speech. The work displays a range of speed, softness and sensitivity in the grounds of rooted grief and celebratory release. There is an intention of intimacy, confrontation and a journey towards the conversation of my inherited womanhood.