Monday, December 16, 2013

modern dance monday with zoe/juniper

A Crack in Everything

photo Yi Chun Wu

A Crack in Everything

A Crack in Everything
















zoe/juniper is a duo team of Juniper Shuey and Zoe Scofield.  My sights have been on their work.  Their resonance into our performance atmosphere is electric.  I have posted what they say about the collaboration:
"Our company is driven by the idea of mythologizing the experience of our senses; creating performances and visual art that challenge the viewer's perception of time and perspective as well as allowing our work's intention to be spacious enough for empathetic experiences to emerge.  Our work realizes and exists in the state of liminality- the sense of being 'in-between'.  By working across different disciplines, we filter our sensual experiences into the mediums that best embodies a facet of the myth our overall concept is based on.  Our current project A Crack in Everything (ACIE) is a meditation on the moments that divide people's lives into before and after.  This project spans dance performance, photography and sculptural video and performance installation.  Within these, we are designing experiences that all maintain the idea of liminality; the thresholds of conscious/unconscious, action/reaction, before/after and cause/effect.  While this idea of mythologizing serves as the trajectory of our work, our concerns are with relaying non-linear "story-ness", originating and distilling significance from rigorous physicality, calibrating the dialogue between the mediums in which we work and literally creating tangible artifacts from the performance within the installation and calcified memories within the photography."

Dance must be seen for words are merely an alphabet for our eyes.  I encourage you to keep your ears to the ground for this march of the hares.  They recently had a residency with On The Boards which landed BeginAgain.

Juniper Shuey and Zoe Scofield

Zoe Scofield

BeginAgain

BeginAgain